Sugaring Off

ITW Thriller Award Finalist“A work of great beauty. Part mystery, part a story of love and loss, it’s all heart.”–Betty Culley, award-winning author of Three Things I Know Are True“As ever, French weaves her storylines deftly…By the time a thriller plot kicks in, readers will be thoroughly embedded.”–Kirkus Reviews“As in French’s other books, she treats her working-class characters with compassion but not preciousness, with a third-person narration that shows the complications of small-town life without exploiting it for drama.”–The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books“At turns lyrical and stark, Sugaring Off is a foray into the wilderness of New Hampshire’s mountains, a sensitive portrait of coming of age in rural America, and a spine-tingling thriller. Gillian French, like Delia Owens and Kristin Hannah, weaves her characters and the natural world they inhabit together masterfully.”–Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, author of The Stepping Off Place, a Kirkus Best Book of 2020“Paced with the smoothness of flowing maple sugar, this book is to be savored.”–SLJ

Gillian French is the author of five novels for teens: Grit, The Door to January, The Lies They Tell, The Missing Season, and Sugaring Off. Her books have been finalists for an Edgar Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and an International Thriller Award, and have won a Lupine Award and two Maine Literary Awards. She lives with her husband and sons in Maine, where she’s perpetually at work on her next novel.