When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received ravereviews, won the Georges Bugnet Award for the Novel and was shortlisted for theSmith’s/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in a suburban sleepdisturbance clinic, Spin Dry follows the story of a woman who undergoesdream deprivation in order to discover the identity of a man obsessing herhusband. It’s a comic satire of husbands and wives, female friendship,daughters and mothers, obsessive love and psychological scrutiny in a suburbanage. This novel of post-war angst was the first to confirm Greg Hollingshead,one of Canada’s most original storytellers, as a virtuoso writer.