Set in London, BRITISH COLUMBIA, and Guyana over two centuries, Jane parallels a contemporary female Londoner's interracial relationships with those of Sir James DOUGLAS, Guyanese-born first governor of British Columbia, who married a half- CREE woman. Experiences of tenuous belonging and dislocation appear also in later novels, including The Last Time I Saw Jane (1996).
Kate Pullinger's first book, the short-story collection Tiny Lies (1988), was followed by the novel When the Monster Dies (1989), in which a post-imperial, multicultural London crumbling under the weight of its two-millennium history becomes home to a squatter community from across the COMMONWEALTH.
Best known as author of the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD-winning The Mistress of Nothing (2009), Pullinger is an adventurous expatriate writer whose 6 novels address themes of migrant identity, the transformative city, the dysfunctional family, transgressive love, and cross-cultural encounters by 19th-century travellers. She abandoned her degree to work and travel, settling in London, England permanently in 1982.
Pullinger grew up on VANCOUVER ISLAND and studied literature and philosophy at MCGILL UNIVERSITY. Pullinger, Kate Kate Pullinger, novelist, anthologist, digital fiction writer (b at Cranbrook, BC ).
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