Welcome!
Welcome to the official website of Canadian author Katherine Govier.
Of interest ...
“Toronto has grown up so much that every corner of it evokes a phrase from a novel by Atwood or Katherine Govier or Russell Smith. Writerly layering makes Toronto more precious every year.”
— Heather Mallick in the Toronto Star 2011
The Ghost Brush
Look for the new paperback edition, with new Afterword as well as new cover art.
Check out The Ghost Brush website.
The Ghost Brush is available in the US under the title The Printmaker’s Daughter. The Printmaker's Daughter has its own website!
The Printmaker's Daughter has received exceptional reviews:
"From the hothouse ferment of art studios, bordellos, and Kabuki theater to the tonic countryside, Govier’s spectacularly detailed, eventful, and emotionally stormy novel is populated by vivid characters and charged with searing insights into Japanese history…"— Starred review, Booklist
"Govier astonishes throughout in her ability to write epic themes intimately… lavishly researched and brilliant… emotionally wrenching."— Starred review, Publishers Weekly
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