A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

£9.99

Due to be published in paperback 17th March 2022. 

Bookseller Review by Valerie:

‘I think the new Mary Lawson novel might be my favourite read of 2021. The story is set in a small, untroubled town in Northern Ontario in the 1970s and slowly reveals the relationship between two households there. The author writes about human life, love, lovelessness and the dangers and rewards of human connection, but with such understated nuance and intensity that I cried, laughed and was totally gripped by the characters, the story, and what was revealed.’

Description

‘I’ve been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel’ Anne Tyler

Clara‘s rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened.

Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the house next door and within hours gets a visit from the police.

Elizabeth is thinking about a crime committed thirty years ago, one that had tragic consequences for two families. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies.

‘Will break your heart’ Graham Norton

‘Exquisitely poignant’ Liane Moriarty