Books
Sussex Drive (2012)
Penguin Random House
"Like Primary Colors, Sussex Drive is unabashedly entertaining and uses the privilege of fiction to talk about the behind-the-scenes drama that shapes public life. This novel is especially to be welcomed because it’s the type of book Canadian writers rarely tackle, engaging public political issues as well as domestic life and borrowing heavily from the techniques of genre literature."
—Jeet Heer, National Post
Marine Life (1992)
HarperCollinsCanada
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Residenz Verlag (1993)
German translation
Archipel (2026)
Chinese translation
Feature film adaptation
Directed by Anne Wheeler
Adapted by Rob Forsyth & Lori Lansens
"Nothing distinctive, in short, until you get to the details. God is in them, as the saying goes, and specifically, Svendsen’s Adele tells of her mother, brother, sisters, father and stepfather with such fresh precision that her sentences adopt us. They pull us into the family, though we see it more clearly than any family member can. Which is why we require books as well as brothers." —Richard Eder, LA Times
Nominee - LA Times First Book Award (1993)
Nominee - Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (1993)
