Amy Jones

Amy Jones’s first novel, We’re All in This Together, won the Northern Lit Award, was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and was named a “Best Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Her fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as LongForm’s Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, Jones lived in Thunder Bay for many years before moving to Toronto.

Website: amyjonesauthor.com
Twitter: @amylaurajones

Jones has written a refreshing, whip-smart story about the toxicity of our ‘always on’, always online, reality TV culture. A novel with real heart.” — Stacey May Fowles

FESTIVAL BOOK

Every Little Piece of Me

Ava Hart is the most reluctant cast member of a reality TV show based on her big-city family’s (mostly staged) efforts to run a B&B in small-town Nova Scotia. Mags Kovach is the charismatic lead singer of a struggling Halifax rock band hoping to be the Next Big Thing.

As Ava and Mags’ private tragedies continue to set social media and tabloid headlines on fire, their every move subjected to an endless stream of public commentary, it will be their unexpected friendship that will save them. They will push back against the roles they’ve been forced to play, and take back control of something they thought they’d lost forever – the right to their own stories.

Every Little Piece of Me is a novel about family, friendship, fame, and the cost of living in the public eye – because when everyone suddenly knows your name, it’s easy to forget who you really are.