Solace in Winter

Having once discovered Lawson, you want more… The comparisons with Elizabeth Strout stand up. So too might ones to Ann Patchett, Claire Keegan, Marilynne Robinson and Annie Proulx for a captivating portrayal of a community and its characters, drawn with humane understanding, empathy and humour – Patricia Nicol * The Times *
I don’t know how she does it. I was so emotionally invested in these characters from the very first page. Mary Lawson has the rare ability to find extraordinary beauty and warmth in the most unexpected places. She’s one of my all-time favourite writers… utterly captivating – GRAHAM NORTON
A beauty of a book… A vivid, gracious, quietly suspenseful and life-affirming novel about the complications of kindness, small-town thinking and an old man’s discovery of new life just when he least expects it. I kept turning the pages, desperate to know how it would end. And oh! A dog to fall completely in love with. – RACHEL JOYCE
A wonderful book, written with a clear-eyed compassion and a fine eye for detail. A masterpiece of insight into what it means to be fully flawed and perfectly human. I loved it – JOANNE HARRIS
An out-and-out masterpiece; I was completely hooked after two pages – CRESSIDA CONNOLLY
A story about how we flourish when we embrace the unexpected and shrivel when we go the other way… The marvellous quality of Lawson’s writing is its simplicity; everything just flows – Melanie McDonagh * Evening Standard *

Mary Lawson’s first novel, Crow Lake, was loved by critics and readers all over the world; it was translated into 26 languages and published in 29 countries. It was a New York Times bestseller, won the McKitterick Prize and spent 75 weeks on the bestseller lists in her native Canada.

Her second novel, The Other Side of the Bridge, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club.

Road Ends, published in 2014, was described by the New York Times as ‘tender and surprising … a vivid and evocative tale’.

A Town Called Solace was an instant bestseller in Canada and longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.

Mary came to England in the 1960s, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames.

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