The Atlas Keeper

Name: The Atlas Keeper (eBook)
Brand: HarperCollins Canada
SKU: 394354
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The Atlas Keeper

A Novel

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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For fans of Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, a young woman finds a magical atlas that can transport her both backward and forward in time

Every life follows a path. Elsie has just found the map to hers.

Elsie Campbell’s life has stalled. Since her mother’s death five years ago, she’s lived in her sister’s basement in the same small town where she was born. She has no real friends, no romance and spends her days crunching data for her dad’s mapping firm. And now, as her sister marries, she’s about to lose her home.

The day after a solar eclipse, Elsie hikes to the lookout where her mother died. There she finds an atlas filled with maps and astrological charts that have the power to send her to twelve turning points in her life. In visiting the past, Elsie makes surprising discoveries about herself. But she can also visit the future—which leads to unexpected consequences.

When the atlas leads her both back to her old boyfriend and toward a new love, Elsie finds herself at a crossroads where she must choose between a familiar and nostalgic road or an uncharted path. Can she really change the course of her life? And should she?

Genres

Time TravelRomanceMultiple TimelinesFictionOccult & SupernaturalTime TravelScience FictionUrbanFantasyContemporary

Released2026

LanguageEnglish

PublisherHarperCollins Canada

ISBN9781443471411

SellerHarperCollins

About the author(s)

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021, while her latest thriller, The Almost Widow, released in 2023, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada. She taught for nearly a decade within the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.

Reviews

"An utterly absorbing and tenderhearted ode to love and loss and the way our choices masquerade as destiny." —Shelley Wood, author of bestselling novels The Leap Year Gene and The Quintland Sisters

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has created an exceptional story of love and resilience; trauma and pain, set against the captivating backdrop of a small wilderness community at odds over its development. Both haunting and hopeful, this gorgeously written, brilliantly paced thriller will stun you with its exquisite prose and terrify you with its chilling undercurrent of fear and desperation. I was mesmerized and petrified until I turned the last glorious page.” —Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today and #1 national bestselling author of Watch Out for Her, on The Almost Widow

"Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a wonderful storyteller. The Almost Wife is a dangerously gripping page-turner, a psychological thriller which shows how the past can blind one to life-and-death threat, twist after breathtaking twist. Don't count on getting any sleep." — Sandra Gulland, author of The Josephine B. Trilogy, on The Almost Wife

“Anderson-Dargatz’s fast-paced prose tracks the plight of someone on the run, desperate to protect her marriage and family....Taut with tension.” —Toronto Star on The Almost Wife

"Anderson-Dargatz writes with a direct, often subversive appeal to narrative, powerful storytelling, and skilfully drawn characters carrying complex social, political, cultural, and spiritual conflicts with an unobtrusive ease." —The Georgia Straight on The Spawning Grounds

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes lovely novels about unlovely people: unlovely people who grow beautiful under her compassionate, masterful, sly authorial gaze.” —Quill & Quire on The Spawning Grounds