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Die kanadische Bestsellerautorin verknüpft drei Schicksale zu einem hoffnungsvollen und zutiefst menschlichen Roman In der idyllischen Kleinstadt Solace ist ein Teenager spurlos verschwunden. Die siebenjährige Clara ist untröstlich und wartet seit Tagen am Fenster auf die Rückkehr ihrer Schwester. Zu allem Unglück liegt auch noch ihre geliebte Nachbarin, die alte Mrs. Orchard, im Krankenhaus. Eines Abends zieht nebenan ein Fremder ein. Liam...

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I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne TylerNorthern Ontario, 1972. Clara's sister is missing after a row with their mother. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, moves into the house next door and within h...

Die kanadische Bestsellerautorin verknüpft drei Schicksale zu einem hoffnungsvollen und zutiefst menschlichen RomanClaras Schwester ist verschwunden. Seit Rose nach einem Streit nicht zurückgekehrt ist, wartet die achtjährige Clara jeden Tag besorgt am Fenster auf sie. Eines Abends zieht nebenan ein Fremder ein. Der frisch getrennte Liam Kane steht etwas ratlos vor seinem neuen Leben in dieser Kleinstadt im Norden Ontarios. Das Haus hat ihm ei...

Kates Kindheit im Norden Ontarios endet jäh, als ihre Eltern tödlich verunglücken. Ihre beiden Brüder Luke und Matt beschließen, sie und die kleine Schwester Bo alleine großzuziehen. Halt findet die verschlossene und bildungshungrige Kate vor allem bei Matt, dessen Liebe zur Tier- und Pflanzenwelt auf sie überspringt. Jahre später arbeitet Kate erfolgreich als Biologin an der Universität von Toronto, weit weg von ihrer Heimat. Doch die Gescheh...

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I've been trying to tell everybody I know about Mary Lawson... [Each of her novels is] just a marvel' ANNE TYLERClara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small nor...

I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson... Each one of her novels is just a marvel' ANNE TYLERClara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small no...

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In den 30er Jahren des 20 Jahrhunderts wachsen im nördlichen Ontario, Kanada, zwei Brüder auf einer kleinen Farm zu sehr verschiedenen Männern heran. Als die schöne Laura in ihr beider Leben tritt, ist ein Konflikt unvermeidbar. 20 Jahre später beginnt der junge Ian auf der Farm der Brüder zu arbeiten. Wie kommt er mit dieser Umgebung zurecht und wie genau ist sein Verhältnis zu Laura?Mary Lawson verbindet in ihrem für den Booker Prize 2006 no...

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A literary saga telling the story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. "Lawson's evocative storytelling...knows just how to draw the reader on...this is a novel of disappointed hopes and self-delusion, but it has a feel-good finish. Move over, Lake Wobegon" "The Spectator".

Now in paperback, this novel ranges from the silver rush in Northern Ontario in the early 1900s to London in the 1960s. From the prize-winning author of "Crow Lake" and "The Other Side Of The Bridge", which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. '"Road Ends" is a captivating novel and a joy to read' Lindsay Healy, "Bookseller

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural "badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins...

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father's character, Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know - the fa...

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Set in the far north of Canada, this is a wide reaching novel from the author of "Crow Lake". Longlisted for the Booker Prize, it's the story of two generations, with an irresistible emotional undertow. 'Like the great 19th-century novelists of provincial life, Mary Lawson is fluent in the desperate intensity of the small, individual dramas of respectable people, and she paints an eloquent picture' "Sunday Telegraph