Bellevue Square

Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Jean Mason has a doppelganger.

She's never seen her, but others* swear they have.

*others | noun. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants - the regulars of Bellevue Square.

Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Curiosity grows to obsession and soon Jean's concerns shift from the identity of the woman, to her very own.

Funny, dark and surprising, Bellevue Square takes readers down the existentialist rabbit hole and asks the question: what happens when the sense you've made of things stops making sense?



Michael Redhill is the author of nine novels including Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Martin Sloane, a finalist for the Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious book award which he won with Bellevue Square. He's written a novel for young adults, four collections of poetry and two plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness. He also writes a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling, was made in to a feature film starring Susan Sarandon. Michael lives in Toronto.



'Unsettling and bewildering. I was totally hooked'



'Dark, dazzling and wry, Bellevue Square is a novel that draws you in - superb'



'This is an intriguing book playing with notions of identity and the self. A psychological thriller in the truest sense of the word; I couldn't put it down'



'Narrated with endearing wit... surface reality becomes increasingly hard to pin down as the book moves towards its phantasmagorical climax'



'The book's literary grandparents include Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, and Patricia Highsmith, and it's a meticulously made novel that rewards a second reading'