A Town Called Solace

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DESCRIPTION : '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, ha d 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 northern town, moves into the house next door, a house left to him by an old woman he can barely remember and within hours gets a visit from the police. It seems he's suspected of a crime.At the end of her life Elizabeth Orchard is thinking about a crime too, one committed thirty years ago that had tragic consequences for two families and in particular for one small child. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies. Set in Northern Ontario in 1972, A Town Called Solace explores the relationships of these three people brought together by fate and the mistakes of the past. By turns gripping and darkly funny, it uncovers the layers of grief and remorse and love that connect us, but shows that sometimes a new life is possible. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781784743932 BY (AUTHOR) Lawson, Mary PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing PUBLICATION DATE : February 18, 2021 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Chatto & Windus LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 210 mm x 136 mm WEIGHT : 312 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more