Joan Barfoot

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Gaining Ground

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  • Dancing in the Dark

    Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an af...

  • Duet for Three

  • Critical Injuries

    Critical Injuries was on both the Globe and Mail`s and Toronto Star`s best books of the year lists published in December, 2001. Isla at 49 is reveling in second chances. Her first marriage ended horrifically, but her career thrives. Her two grown ...

  • Luck

    One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed No...

  • Coming and Going

  • Exit Lines

    You might think life in a retirement home would be a trifle boring, but in the Idyll Inn of Joan Barfoot's latest marvellous novel, not everyone feels ready for the quiet life. But wait, maybe one resident does! Oh dear. Seniors begin to settle int...

  • Abra

    From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist 'Luck' and the Man Booker Prize nominated 'Critical Injuries'In this award-winning novel, Joan Barfoot examines the life of a woman named Abra. From her middle-class childhood in the 1950s throu...

  • Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch

    One old woman crouches in a hedge, spying on a long-ago married lover. The other is the recent widow of a lifelong philanderer. Charlotte and Claudia have had quite different lives, one a single career social worker, the other a married career mother...



  • Family News

    Susannah is a journalist who considers herself something of a war correspondent from the front lines of domestic distress. Teddy, an ex-lover, is an artist and a protester on behalf of causes of peace -- and the man Susannah chooses to father the c...

  • Plain Jane

    What sort of woman sees an ad for a prison penpal and sets out to correspond with a convict she knows nothing of? It seems an unlikely number of women do exactly that in real life. In fiction, one of them is Jane Smith, an unusually withdrawn but oth...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joan Barfoot has published 11 books.

Joan Barfoot does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Plain Jane, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Joan Barfoot, Gaining Ground, was published in January 1980.

No. Joan Barfoot does not write books in series.
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