When a well-known literary agent picked up Sandra Nicholls' first novel after reading only two chapters, visions of contracts danced in her head. Then reality set in. Publishers were nervous about taking a risk with a first-time novelist -- but you shouldn't be. Sandra Nicholls is already an award-winning Canadian poet with two books of poetry to her credit. Choose for yourself, and discover an author that publishers, despite their nerves, have called witty, inventive and original.