Terry Griggs is the author of Quickening, which was nominated for a Governor General's Award, The Lusty Man, Rogues' Wedding, shortlisted for the Roger's Writer's Trust Fiction Prize, and Thought You Were Dead. Her popular children's novels include the Cat's Eye Corner series, and, most recently, Nieve (Biblioasis).

PRAISE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF HONEY

“For me it was another case of love at first line and I knew in an instant I wouldn’t be putting the book down until I’d finished it.” —James Crossley, Mercer Island Books

“A postmodern picaresque.”—Quill & Quire

“Griggs loves words in a way that can be contagious to the reader.”—National Post

“The Discovery of Honey is packed full of vivid imagery, moving metaphors, precise prose, laugh-out-loud observations and sad essential truths.”—Winnipeg Free Press

PRAISE FOR TERRY GRIGGS

“The language, the verbal fireworks, the apparently limitless stream of image and metaphor—startling, heady, hilarious—do it all.”—The Globe and Mail

“When her poetic sensibility is joined to a narrative that is both wildly comic and poignant in mood, which happens often in her stories, the results are superb.”—Toronto Star

“Griggs creates magical transformations with words alone.”—The Vancouver Sun

“Terry Griggs [has] made her mark as an original and arresting writer with a potential to be consistently inventive and brilliant.”—Jury for the Marian Engel Award

“She's a wildly inventive storyteller, gifted with a superb turn of phrase.”—Montreal Gazette