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Claire’s debut novel, The Reckoning of Boston Jim (Brindle & Glass, 2007) is set in British Columbia in 1863 during the tumultuous building of the Cariboo Wagon Road. It was nominated for the BC Book Prize as well as the Scotiabank Giller Prize –  Canada's most prestigious award.

 

Her second novel, The Dark (Doubleday/Random House, 2013), was nominated for the Canadian Authors Award and was translated into French by Sophie Voillot as Dans Le Noir (Editions alto). The Dark is based on the true story of the infamous Fox sisters and the rise of Spiritualism in the 19th century.