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category: Fiction
published: Sep 2012
ISBN:9781926972909
publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing

Cadillac Couches

by Sophie B. Watson

tagged: literary, coming of age, contemporary women
Description

Winner of a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal

Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten twentysomething women as they search for love and purpose. Annie Jones is trying to put her big love, Sullivan, behind her and squash her demons of anxiety and compulsion. In a post-fest funk, she and her more worldly sidekick Isobel jump in Annie's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle and race across the country to Montreal where her real-life fantasy man, Hawksley Workman, is doing a gig. A year later Annie and Isobel end up back at the folk festival, this time in a much different position.

A witty first novel, Cadillac Couches is a story about finding one's holy grail in life. The book comes with its own playlist.

About the Author

Sophie B. Watson is an award-winning author, translator and editor. Since studying French and English literature at the University of Alberta, Sophie has worked in the book publishing industry as a writer, editor, translator and as a bilingual editor for Les Éditions Duval. Over the years she has worked in educational, literary, trade and academic publishing. As a freelance writer Sophie has had many articles published in Canadian and Irish publications and her novel Cadillac Couches received excellent reviews.

Editorial Reviews

Sophie B. Watson talks to CBC Music about her musically inspired road trip novel Cadillac Couches, and why she included Hawksley Workman in the story, and Hawksley responds.


This novel has a blend of Will Ferguson-like love/despair of Canada, with the contemporary zing of writers like Susan Isaacs, M.A.C. Farrant and Susan Juby. But Cadillac Couches is entirely its own being and I highly recommend getting to know it! —Fabbity Fab Book Reviews


I love this angsty, already-of-age, road trip tale of idealistic music worshipping and very real people who party and suffer as only post-eighties people know how! —Ben Sures, singer-songwriter


Cadillac Couches, an all-Canadian novel written by Edmontonian, Sophie B. Watson, gives readers greater insight into Edmonton’s niche of Folk Music Festival loving people. —Nicole Basaraba blog


Searching for Hawksley Workman on The Next Chapter—CBC's music guy Vish Khanna talks to Shelagh Rogers about Cadillac Couches


The road trip that accounts for the majority of the novel helps keep the story moving at a brisk pace, while also making the book as much an ode to Canada as to music. —Quill & Quire


Cadillac Couches reveals Watson’s ability to create truthful character and voice. —The Coastal Spectator


I really liked Cadillac Couches, a silly, sprawling road-trip novel with its very own soundtrack . . . The whole package casts a spell. For those of us who came of age in the 1990s, Cadillac Couches is a bit like a scrapbook, the coolest bits of every diary you ever kept. Watson shuns convention with her book’s conclusion too, its happily ever after coming courtesy of a refreshing dose of grrrl power. —Pickle Me This blog


Listen to Sophie B. Watson's interview with Paul Kennett on CJSW's Writer's Block. She's talking music and fiction and how the two intersect in her novel, Cadillac Couches.

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