MARINA ENDICOTT's much-celebrated novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next, The Little Shadows, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Giller Prize, as was the novel that followed, Close to Hugh. Her most recent novels, The Difference and The Observer were published to acclaim in Canada and the US. Endicott lived for many years in Edmonton, Alberta, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.