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Fiction. THE INCOMPARABLES is the debut novel from the Trillium-nominated author ofAnimal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels incapable of doing in words. For the past ten years she's apprenticed in the wardrobe department of a small Shakespearean theatre company and has finally been given the opportunity to showcase her designs. When she discovers her husband is having an affair with his leading lady, she seeks revenge the only way she knows how: she weaves her panic, pain, and paranoia into the costumes. It costs her the job. She swears she'll never sew again, packs her things and returns to her mother and the sprawling country estate she left years ago.

When a group of counsellors from the city book the family's Bed and Breakfast for the summer to prepare for a special wedding ceremony, Lydia's plans to never thread a needle again are challenged. Through the one thing she cannot live without, the counsellors lure Lydia into a role she did not see coming—the true nature of her self.

Alexandra Leggat is the author of THE INCOMPARABLES (Anvil Press, 2013), the short story collections Animal (Anvil Press, 2009), short-listed for the Trillium Award, Meet Me in the Parking Lot (Insomniac Press, 2004), Pull Gently, Tear Here (Insomniac Press, 2001), nominated for the Danuta Gleed First Fiction Award, and a collection of poetry entitled This is me since yesterday (Coach House Books, 1994). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in journals across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.