A young writer finds his way in and out of love in the late twentieth century.

The scene is Toronto, early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman — a poet named Gudrun Peel — rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy.

Surrounded by friends, frenemies, lovers and rivals in the underground arts scene, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens, and their creative and professional lives stumble, stall and then suddenly blow up, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience … as well as each other.

The much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley's Aubrey McKee, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love. (From Biblioasis)

Alex Pugsley is a Nova Scotia filmmaker and writer. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling. He was named one of CBC's Writers to Watch and nominated for many awards, including the Canadian Comedy Awards, Gemini Awards and National Magazine Awards. Winner of the Writers' Trust Journey Prize for his short story Crisis on Earth-X, his third Aubrey McKee novel Silver Lake is due to be released by Biblioasis.