The most painful secrets create the deepest of lies

When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not who she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters as she disappears, leaving a new husband and baby daughter, and a host of unanswered questions. Who is she really and what happened to the young woman whose identity she has stolen? Why has she left and where did she go? It is left to the daughter she abandoned to find the answers to these questions as she searches for the mother she may never find or really know.



Praise for Nancy Richler’s The Imposter Bride:

National Bestseller

“Richler’s strengths are at their height. She employs a vivid lyricism that interweaves psychological and geographical landscapes.” —National Post

“The question of identity lies at the heart of Montreal author Nancy Richler’s beautiful new literary novel, a meticulously rendered character study about Jews in Montreal post-Second World War. The Imposter Bride, like Richler’s 2003 award-winning fiction, Your Mouth Is Lovely, probes this essential question by primarily examining the connectivity of women across generations, oceans and time.” —Winnipeg Free Press

Length: 352 pp
Genre/Category: Literary fiction
Setting: Canada, Europe, Israel
Period: contemporary and post-WWII


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Nancy Richler’s short fiction has been published in various American and Canadian literary journals, incluing Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Another Chicago Magazine, and The Journey Prize Anthology. Her first novel, Throwaway Angels, was published in 1996 and was shortlisted for the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. Her second book, Your Mouth Is Lovely, won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and Italy’s Adei-Wizo Prize. It has been translated into seven languages. Born in Montreal, Nancy Richler lived for many years in Vancouver but has recently returned to Montreal. Nancy Richler’s website can be found at www.nancyrichler.com.