Cadillac Couches

The road trip that accounts for the majority of the novel helps keep the story moving at a brisk pace, while also making the book as much an ode to Canada as to music. —Quill & Quire

Cadillac Couches reveals Watson’s ability to create truthful character and voice. —The Coastal Spectator

I love this angsty, already-of-age, road trip tale of idealistic music worshipping and very real people who party and suffer as only post-eighties people know how! —Ben Sures, singer-songwriter

I really liked Cadillac Couches, a silly, sprawling road-trip novel with its very own soundtrack . . . The whole package casts a spell. For those of us who came of age in the 1990s, Cadillac Couches is a bit like a scrapbook, the coolest bits of every diary you ever kept. Watson shuns convention with her book’s conclusion too, its happily ever after coming courtesy of a refreshing dose of grrrl power. —Pickle Me This blog

Sophie B. Watson talks to CBC Music about her musically inspired road trip novel Cadillac Couches, and why she included Hawksley Workman in the story, and Hawksley responds.

Listen to Sophie B. Watson's interview with Paul Kennett on CJSW's Writer's Block. She's talking music and fiction and how the two intersect in her novel, Cadillac Couches.

Cadillac Couches, an all-Canadian novel written by Edmontonian, Sophie B. Watson, gives readers greater insight into Edmonton’s niche of Folk Music Festival loving people. —Nicole Basaraba blog

This novel has a blend of Will Ferguson-like love/despair of Canada, with the contemporary zing of writers like Susan Isaacs, M.A.C. Farrant and Susan Juby. But Cadillac Couches is entirely its own being and I highly recommend getting to know it! —Fabbity Fab Book Reviews

Searching for Hawksley Workman on The Next Chapter—CBC's music guy Vish Khanna talks to Shelagh Rogers about Cadillac Couches