"Wonderful messages on the fridge door..."

A review of the new novel from THIN AIR author Alice Kuipers was in this weekend's Winnipeg Free Press Books Section, written by Lexi Walker.

Quite a geographically diverse undertaking, if you're keeping score. Walker is a Winnipegger living Victoria, while Kuipers is a Brit now living in Saskatoon.

Here's a snippet from the review:

Life on the Refrigerator Door
By Alice Kuipers
HarperCollins, 220 pages, $20

Reviewed by Lexi Walker

AS any household with working parents and busy teenagers will know, time spent together can sometimes be sparse.

Life on the Refrigerator Door, by Alice Kuipers, is a short novel about a mother and her 15-year-old daughter faced with exactly this problem. It is comprised entirely of notes left on the refrigerator door, their only way of communicating with each another.

Kuipers was born in London, England, and now lives in Saskatoon, where her partner is Yann Martel, the Canadian author of the prize-winning novel Life of Pi. She has had stories published in literary magazines and has produced for CBC Radio. Life on the Refrigerator Door is her first novel. [...]

Alice Kuipers will be appearing at THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival:

September 26 - Mainstage, with Maureen Fergus, Susan Juby, Brendan McLeod, Janice Kulyk Keefer.
September 26 - Nooner at the Millennium Library.