When Frankie's mother dies, the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his father — and so begins Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstock's eighth novel. Narrated in turns by Frankie, who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it's pink and 'smooth like counting,' and being alone when he feels bad, and a cast of characters that includes his Gran and his father, Here I Am! is a mesmerizing story about innocence lost and found. (From Bibliosasis)

Here I Am! is available in Sept. 2019.

Pauline Holdstock is an author who lives in British Columbia. Her novel Beyond Measure was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2004.