Books with author Sarah Langton

Winter Loveless awakes from a coma to find that everything in her life has changed. Her mom has taken over her apartment, her friends are keeping secrets from her, and Justin is gone. Winter, now a suspect in the disappearance of Justin Smith, wants nothing more than to forget what happened and move on, but that is impossible when she relives it every night in her dreams. But when her dreams change, Winter must find out what it means. It seems that the time to find Justin is running out, and Winter is determined to find him or die trying.In this exciting conclusion to Winter’s Fall, questions are answered, new enemies arise, and lives are changed forever.

2012 AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD QUARTERFINALIST“Really takes off during a high and naked moment in a self-made steam hut in the woods.” –Publisher’s WeeklyA portrait of the artist as a young woman...Helene vividly remembers that night in Prince George when her alcoholic mother threatened to leave. She also cannot forget the day her stepfather sent her away to a group home. Now, years later in Vancouver, she has met a man who can make her forget all that.The God of My Art is layered with unforgettable scenes of youth, obsessive love, and artistic longing. At the core of this coming-of-age tale are the shifting faces of Helene—teenage runaway, university student, and budding artist. Related in her engaging voice, this novel chronicles Helene’s seminal love affair with Matthew, a globetrotting mountaineer passionate about Nietzsche, and the art he inspires within her. As she wrestles to become the artist she wants to be, she encounters unforgettable characters along the way, including Hana, a lesbian theatre student fed up with her partner’s multiple affairs, and Laurent, a French exchange student who grapples with existential questions of his own.Bold and poetic, sensual and confessional, The God of My Art explores obsessive love as a source of inspiration for art, where the artist is female and the eternal muse, male.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Sarah Lane is a Canadian author. Her first novel The God of My Art was a quarterfinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Roar Magazine, and Quills: Canadian Poetry Magazine.She has travelled the globe, from Cameroon to Costa Rica to Scotland to Spain. She wrote her first novel while living in France. Now a mom to two young children, she has put down tentative roots in Vancouver, where she's working on a new book: a psychological thriller about a doppelgänger and the madness of salsa dancing.Learn more:Website: http://www.sarahlanebooks.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/sarahlanebooksTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/sarahlanebooks* Sign up to be the first to know about Sarah's new releases http://bit.ly/1mSSH58

Longlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award What if the muse, aka the goddess of art, was male? The God of My Art paints a portrait of the artist as a young woman. Years after running away from home, gifted Helene must wrestle with her childhood if she wants to discover her true calling. She finds a muse in philosophical Matthew, who makes her past feel so far away.... but is it? Matthew dreams of escaping the mundane by becoming a humanitarian worker in a war zone, but for now he is fond of quoting Nietzsche when he's not off climbing mountains. As Helene's growing infatuation with him unfolds, so does the true nature of her hero worship. Bold and poetic, The God of My Art explores unrequited love as the source of inspiration for art. >>> Praise for The God of My Art: "Sarah Lane's debut novel is an ambitious exploration of how an artist is born and - perhaps more importantly - how she chooses to follow that path as an adult. Lane's prose style is superb; there is a great deal of keen observation, strong dialogue, and interesting ruminations from a heroine coming of age after a difficult childhood." -Sandra Hutchison, author of The Awful Mess: A Love Story "This is one of the best books I've read in a very long time. The plot and character development was brilliant and the writing was exquisite, hard when it needed to be and gentle when required, too. The author never took a wrong turn anywhere. I didn't know where the story was going and I didn't care. I was just so caught up in it." -Martin Crosbie, author of My Temporary Life "Really takes off during a high and naked moment in a self-made steam hut in the woods." -Publisher's Weekly "Many authors succeed in capitalizing on vibrant cities to set their novels, but Sarah Lane's beautiful and simple prose takes this a magical step further. The God of My Art is far more than a collage of Vancouver beaches, streets and towering mountains. The novel's strength lies in the dichotomy of the "chosen" and "outliers"--the pampered heirs to Shaughnessy fortunes and the soon-to-disappear women of Hastings Street back alleys. Like art, Lane's prose reveals its deepest secrets not in the rays of light, but in the shadows." -New Perspectives on Canadian Literature "Be warned: Lane's prose has a tendency to gently lure you into reading the book in one sitting." -The Ubyssey