Lauren Davis will be launching her new novel Against a Darkening Sky (ChiZine $18.99) at Labyrinth Books on Tuesday May 12 at 6 p.m.

According to Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,

“Against a Darkening Sky brilliantly achieves the ideal for a historical novel: period and milieu seem utterly inextricable from character and theme, and together they illuminate timeless and universal truths of the human condition. Seventh-century England is fascinating. Wilona is achingly real. Her quest for an identity and a place in the world are richly resonant. Davis is a remarkable writer.”

Lauren B. Davis is the author of The Stubborn Season, The Radiant City, Our Daily Bread, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a best book of the year by both the Globe and Mail and the Boston Globe; and The Empty Room, was named a best book of the year by the National Post and the Winnipeg Free press, as well as two story collections, Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives and An Unrehearsed Desire. Born in Montreal, she currently resides in Princeton with her husband Ron. Having been writer-in-residence at Trinity Church, she now leads monthly Sharpening the Quill writing workshops. For more information, visit: www.laurenbdavis.com.