Carol Bruneau is the author of six books: two short fiction collections and four novels, including the recently released These Good Hands. Her first nove, Purple for Sky, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her 2007 novel, Glass Voices, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and has become a book club favourite. HEr reviews, stories, and essays have appeared nationwide in newspapers, journals, and anthropologies. A mother of three sons, she lives with her husband in Halifax, where she teaches writing at NSCAD University.