Kathleen Winter’s previous novel Annabel was published in 15 countries and is in development as a film. In this poetic and imaginative work, Winter skillfully interweaves the factual past with an imagined present, while bridging more than 300-years of time. His search dislodges unsettling questions about the price war exacts from soldiers of all empires, past and present. In LOST IN SEPTEMBER, Wolfe is reimagined as Jimmy, a PTSD-afflicted veteran wandering the streets of contemporary Montreal, determined to reclaim those lost days and to fathom what became of his youth-and of the British North America for whose gain he’d abandoned all hope of personal happiness. But before he could embark, Britain adopted Europe’s Gregorian calendar, and the entire country had to adjust its dates: Septemwas followed by September 14, and Wolfe lost eleven days of his precious sabbatical. By 25, after a decade of hard soldiering, he begged, and was awarded, a month of study leave in Paris. Wolfe began his military career at the age of 15. Legend portrays him as fearless and determined, but his voluminous personal correspondence (some of which is housed at Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) reveals a lifelong struggle with melancholy and trauma. This brilliant high-concept novel reimagines an eleven-day period in the life of General James Wolfe (1727-1759), an iconic figure in the military history of Canada.

Happy book birthday to Kathleen Winter’s LOST IN SEPTEMBER, this thrilling new novel just published with Alfred A.

Lost in september by kathleen winter