Ana Burns is lying in an abandoned farmer's field, falling asleep as the sun sets, when her mind is transported to her childhood, to another time, another field, where her life changed forever.

Growing up in Middletown, Connecticut, in the 1960s, Ana lives mostly in her imagination. One day, while collecting wildflowers in Crow's Field with a friend, two older boys approach to ask what they're doing. So begins the reliving of a violent attack that shaped the lives of the young girls.

When her family moves to Kingston, Ontario, amid Canada's Centennial celebrations, Ana is determined to start anew. She will no longer be the quiet girl who follows someone else's lead. She will be her own person. Her teenage years are a time of new friends and sexual discoveries, but also severe bullying. Though she continues to be haunted by the events in Crow's Field, Ana becomes a woman willing to act and to speak.

In the debut novel from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Judith Thompson delivers a transformative story of a young woman's path out of silence.

The story of one shy girl's path out of silence.

About the Author
Judith Thompson is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and a professor of theatre studies at the University of Guelph. She has twice won the Governor General's Award, for the play White Biting Dog (1984) and the collection of plays The Other Side of the Dark (1989), and has been recognized with many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, the Epilepsy Ontario Award, several Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the plays I Am Yours (1987) and Lion in the Streets (1991), the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, the B'nai B'rith Award, and many others. Her plays have been produced in many countries and translated into several languages. In 2008, she was the first Canadian to receive the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Toronto. In Crow's Field is her first novel.


Book Information
ISBN 9781770867925
Author Judith Thompson
Format Paperback
Page Count 374
Imprint Cormorant Books,Canada
Publisher Cormorant Books,Canada
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm