Roanna Gonsalves

It's very interesting.

The Woman in the Window, and yes, that is a reference to Hitchcock.

Yes.

I mean, I remember reading that as a kid and loving it.

All those tales of, you know, hardship in the little homespun house on the prairie, the sisters bickering.

But also...

And I know that there was something quite problematic about the representations of the Native American people in those books.

And subsequently, it's been the subject of controversy in relation to the school curricula in the US.

Should it still be on there with these representations?

Exactly.

And this is one that we will be talking about.

I read The Break, which is by Katharina Vermette.

It's Canadian, as you say.

It's about a family of people who are of Métis descent.

That's a group of peoples from Canada who can trace their origins to the First Nations peoples, as well as European settlers in Canada.

Now, this book was written and published in 2016 as a debut novel by Katharina Vermette.

It had a relatively modest launch because of that, but since then it's gone on to win a string of awards, and Alan and Anwen are now releasing it here, which is great news.

I think it's March, it's coming out.

It's brutal, it's despairing at times, but it's also incredibly beautiful.

I mean, beautiful.