Lynnette D'anna

Eli and Jerry want Zoey. Jean Paul wants to make Zoey's boss George respectable by marrying her. And George? George wants Zoey - but even more, she wants Nancy. Nancy, who's into pain; who wants everyone.Now Nancy's dead, murdered, and George is burning to find out why. Actors, writers, and other degenerates animate this bawdy romp through the glittering, amoral arcades of consumerist culture. In Vancouver, New York, small- town Manitoba, the polymorphously perverse devour each other, illuminating the strange fascination that self-destruction can hold. Reviewers say: "Belly Fruit explores the collisions between sexuality, obsession, art and pain, veering in tone from the gently sensual to the brutally painful." Candace Fertile, Quill & Quire. "I couldn't put it down - it makes a person break into a sweat now and then. Fascinating characters." Patrick Friesen, Poet.

Separate but interconnected narratives explore three women's responses to the violence in their personal worlds. Each woman, in her own way, travels toward the bedrock of her own terrible pain, searching for nurture.Through the excavation of their pain, each is brought into closer touch with the complex meaning of choice and freedom. Reviewers say: "Simple, and stunningly lovely, prose!" Publishers Weekly. "The author's elegant writing crosses deftly back and forth over the terrain of fiction, poetry and creative documentary. Her poetic sensibility infuses this book with a fragile beauty. A moving account of the betrayal of innocence." Patricia Seaman, The Globe & Mail. "A novel of startling force and beauty, told in deceptively simple prose by a writer come into her poetic maturity."

Mystery, love, loss and desire - Rita, Sage, Eddie and Pearce are boldly coming of age. A compelling story of growing up and letting go. A brooding examination of the gains and losses which map a girl's realization of Self. "A complex web of relationships and sexual discovery, compelling in its drama, moving in its honesty, and satisfying in its outcome." Books in Canada "Imagine the energy of early Marge Piercy novels linked to a much darker and more mature sense of the hidden rooms where desire, power, sexism and hallucinations intersect -- a sort of Northern Gothic, with attitude." Tom Sandborn, Xtra! West "D'anna has a deep sense of what is both torrid and complex about coming of age, and an understanding of the fluidity of sexual allegiance. D'anna is able to locate the burning itch at the centre of young women's sexuality." Lynn Crosbie, Globe & Mail "Author Lynnette D'anna has braided the lives of three women growing up in a small town into an intelligent, emotionally percussive and almost allegorical novel about love corrupted and love redeemed." Prairie Fire

Nemah battles her demons of addiction and abuse, stubbornly refusing to become a victim, equally determined to triumph against all odds. Beautifully written, passionate and true, this is a story of human endurance, of the spirit caught in a maze of self-rage but refusing to be extinguished.

Saddled with Chloe Gresham, his beautiful and irresponsible young ward, Sir Hugo Lattimer, a man driven by dark memories and a tormenting despair, has no intention of caring for her--until he falls in love.