Lisa Brideau
March 23rd, 2026
Lisa Brideau’s debut novel, Adrift (Sourcebooks Landmark $25.99) is a suspenseful climate fiction novel set in Haida Gwaii and Nanaimo. The story takes place in a near-future world struggling with climate change where a woman wakes up alone on a sailboat in a remote area of Haida Gwaii. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there; she only has a cryptic note which ends with the warning: don’t look back. The story follows her as she struggles with the choice to heed the advice and move forward into a new life, or try to reclaim the person she once was. Adrift is simultaneously a thriller, a character-driven odyssey and an unsettling, plausible picture of what our future could be. Margaret Cannon of the Globe and Mail said, “I was as transfixed by Brideau’s vision of the future as Ess’s survival. This is, in many ways, a very scary book. “Adrift was nominated for a Strand Critics Choice Award, a Crime Writer’s of Canada Award and won the 2024 Evergreen Award. A former aerospace engineer, Brideau now works as a municipal sustainability specialist on climate policy and climate justice. 9781728265681
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