Nicole grew up in Upper Gullies, Newfoundland, with her five siblings and parents, John and Nancy Lundrigan. She attended Queen Elizabeth Regional High School in nearby Foxtrap. During her final year at QERHS, she enjoyed a semester of school in Amiens, France where she lived with a Baron and Baroness in the Chateau de Prouzel.
After high school, Nicole moved to Fredericton, and earned a BSc from the University of New Brunswick. The summer after graduation, she resided in the small community of Morawhanna, Guyana, where she helped to rebuild a schoolhouse, volunteered with a doctor bringing healthcare to remote villages, and assisted in a sea turtle conservation program on Shell Beach. Upon returning to Canada, Nicole attended Saint Marys University (Halifax) and received a BA (honours) in anthropology. During her time in Halifax, she worked on an archaeological dig which involved the removal and analysis of skeletal remains beneath the Little Dutch Church. In 1996, she moved to Ontario, and completed an MSc from the University of Toronto with a focus on physical anthropology. Her main area of interest was understanding the conditions affecting the degradation of DNA in postmortem skeletal remains.
Shortly after graduation, she began freelance writing and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Readers Digest, Mothering: The Natural Family Living Magazine, Law and Order: Police Management, and the Halifax Daily Herald. She is the author of six novels: Unraveling Arva, Thaw, The Seary Line, Glass Boys, The Widow Tree, and The Substitute (forthcoming June 2017). Her literary fiction has been selected as a top ten pick by Canadas national newspaper the Globe and Mail, a top 100 on Amazon.ca, a Now Magazine top 10, was long-listed for the Relit Award, and given honourable mention for the Sunburst Award.
She resides in Toronto, Ontario.
After high school, Nicole moved to Fredericton, and earned a BSc from the University of New Brunswick. The summer after graduation, she resided in the small community of Morawhanna, Guyana, where she helped to rebuild a schoolhouse, volunteered with a doctor bringing healthcare to remote villages, and assisted in a sea turtle conservation program on Shell Beach. Upon returning to Canada, Nicole attended Saint Marys University (Halifax) and received a BA (honours) in anthropology. During her time in Halifax, she worked on an archaeological dig which involved the removal and analysis of skeletal remains beneath the Little Dutch Church. In 1996, she moved to Ontario, and completed an MSc from the University of Toronto with a focus on physical anthropology. Her main area of interest was understanding the conditions affecting the degradation of DNA in postmortem skeletal remains.
Shortly after graduation, she began freelance writing and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Readers Digest, Mothering: The Natural Family Living Magazine, Law and Order: Police Management, and the Halifax Daily Herald. She is the author of six novels: Unraveling Arva, Thaw, The Seary Line, Glass Boys, The Widow Tree, and The Substitute (forthcoming June 2017). Her literary fiction has been selected as a top ten pick by Canadas national newspaper the Globe and Mail, a top 100 on Amazon.ca, a Now Magazine top 10, was long-listed for the Relit Award, and given honourable mention for the Sunburst Award.
She resides in Toronto, Ontario.
Genres: Mystery
Novels
Unraveling Arva (2003)
Thaw (2005)
The Seary Line (2008)
Glass Boys (2011)
The Widow Tree (2014)
The Substitute (2017)
Hideaway (2019)
An Unthinkable Thing (2022)
A Man Downstairs (2024)
Thaw (2005)
The Seary Line (2008)
Glass Boys (2011)
The Widow Tree (2014)
The Substitute (2017)
Hideaway (2019)
An Unthinkable Thing (2022)
A Man Downstairs (2024)
Nicole Lundrigan recommends
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The Life She Had (2022)
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