Lilla Csorgo is a Toronto-based economist who specializes in competition policy and industrial organization. Her varied career has included appointments as a member of a federal tribunal, a senior bureaucrat, and a vice president in a consulting firm. 

Lilla’s reputation as a playwright began to grow in 1999 when the renowned Theatre Passe Muraille first produced her play Babes on Bay Street. She wrote Bangkok, which was featured at RAW, a distinguished New York reading series; the National Arts Centre’s On the Verge Festival; and the Toronto Fringe Festival before being workshopped at the Banff playRites Colony. The Bigger World was a finalist in the National Playwriting Competition and was part of Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Festival. 

Lilla twice participated in the Humber School for Writers’ correspondence programme, where she had the great pleasure of working with Joan Barfoot and the late Paul Quarrington. The Janus Affair is her first novel.

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The Janus Affair

Janice’s husband, Ric, has disappeared.  He’s officially a missing person but that would suggest she misses him, and she doesn’t.  Not officially. “Did you ever suspect your husband of leading a double life?” the detective asks, undermining Janice’s hope of ignoring Ric’s desertion and retreating into her home. Surely the Ric she married wouldn’t have left her confronting belligerent police and newspapers full of pictures of him with that young hottie, the former prime minister’s daughter, whose own disappearance coincides awkwardly with Ric’s.

When the extravagant home Janice never even wanted turns out to belong not to her but to Ric’s former fiancée, Justine, the two women, shrewdly practiced in avoiding each other, find their lives linked in ways they never suspected. 

Set in the world of corporate takeovers, million-dollar neighbourhoods, and exclusive clubs, The Janus Affair is a funny, page-turning look at deceit, identity, and disappearing acts through the eyes of two smart, accomplished women who quickly learn that sometimes it takes more than two perspectives to get to the truth about one man.

Manuscript available
Rights: World

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