num_pages: 320
description: Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness."--back cover
language: English
title: Unless
titlecomplete: Unless
genres: Canada, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Womens, Literature, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 16318
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: Fourth Estate