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Marissa Stapley is the author of the Globe and Mail bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Mating for Life -- "intriguing and heartbreaking" (Publisher's Weekly); "absorbing and entertaining" (Maclean's magazine) -- and the forthcoming Things to Do When It's Raining, which author Lauren Fox calls "a gorgeously written page-turner", author Jennifer Robson calls "one of the best books I have read in a very long time" and author Karma Brown calls "a deeply moving story about family, love and loss". Things to Do When It's Raining will be released by Rowohlt in Germany on November 7, 2017 and by Simon & Schuster Canada and Graydon House (US) on February 6, 2018. Marissa also writes Shelf Love, a monthly commercial fiction review column for the Globe and Mail and reports on books and culture for the Toronto Star. She lives in Toronto with her family.