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Theresa Shea’s debut novel, The Unfinished Child, was published in 2013. It sold over 12,000 copies, was a popular book club selection, and was nominated for several awards. Her second, The Shade Tree, won the 2020 Guernica Prize for best novel manuscript and the  2022 Georges Bugnet Award  for Fiction (Alberta Literary Awards). Dog Days of Planet Earth, her much-anticipated third novel, will be published by ECW in fall 2026.

“One of the most powerful Alberta writers of this decade   . . .” 
The St. Albert Gazette.

What reviewers and readers are saying about The Shade Tree:

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So Much Beauty!

Tulips Tulips Tulips!!   May in Edmonton is glorious. Pushing my non-electric bike up Skunk Hollow this afternoon, I had to stop and take pictures of these perfect tulips. After
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New at the Newsletter Game

What would you like to see in my Newsletter? What questions do you have? Feel free to contact me. As I am technologically challenged, I’m not sure if you can
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Dealing with rejection

And then there are failures . . . Lest it sound like everything is going my way, I had two rejections while on my “retreat.” I did not get a
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