Praise for The Hidden Keys

“[R]aces along with the irrepressibility of an Ealing comedy, blending farce, danger and oddball philosophy with ease.”—John Boyne, author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies in The Irish Times

“This gorgeously written, funny adventure tale will keep readers up finishing it while also quietly breaking their hearts with Alexis’s keen observations of people, kindness, and cruelty.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

“I loved this smart, exuberant fantasy from start to finish.”—Jonathan Gibbs, The Guardian

“Highly entertaining.”—Globe & Mail

Praise for Fifteen Dogs

Winner 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize;

Winner 2015 Writers Trust Rogers Prize

“An elegant cross-breed of magical realism, moral fable, owner's handbook and philosophical treatise.”—Frances Wilson, New Statesman Books of the Year

“[A] tender and elegant exploration of the perpetual problem of human consciousness, and the ways that gift is likewise a curse.”—National Post

“[A] startlingly original novel as thought-provoking as it is enjoyable.”—The Independent

“A really meaty read that will leave you thinking long after the last pages.”—Nichole McCown, Bookshop Santa Cruz

“Thought-provoking and moving”—Good Housekeeping

Praise for Pastoral

“To gauge Pastoral purely in terms of the incidents that occupy its plot, we would seem to be in the realm of lightly comic, quirky yet fundamentally earnest Canadiana, but let me assure you that the tone and timbre of the prose and the ontological temperament of the central characters sweeps the imagination far from the homey threshold of the Vinyl Café. This novel’s pleasures indeed include a rich sense of place, but that sense comes without sentimentality, and that place is something one might just as easily flee from as call home. Pastoral beauty is certainly on offer, but Alexis’ fluid, evocative descriptions of the rural wonders that surround Barrow are much more than nostalgia for a childhood idyll or mere reverie for revere’s sake — they constitute the very heart of Pastoral’s unresolved/unresolvable crisis of faith. Pastoral is about living with the uncertainty of death’s hour, of love’s constancy, of God’s existence or nature’s indifference.”—National Post