Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

The first novel from bestselling, prize-winning Mary Lawson – ‘A remarkable novel, utterly gripping…I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it.’ Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

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

Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protege, her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. She thinks she’s outgrown her family, who were once her entire world – but she can’t seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.

‘A remarkable novel, utterly gripping…I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it’ Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

‘Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity…a compelling and serious page-turner’ Observer

This slow-burning story is set in the rural “badlands” of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground.

About the Author: Mary Lawson’s first novel, Crow Lake, was loved by critics and readers all over the world; it was translated into 25 languages and published in 28 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, published to critical acclaim in February 2021, was an instant bestseller in her native Canada. Mary came to England in the 1960s, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames.

www.marylawson.ca

06 Feb 2003
 

Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE by Mary Lawson ISBN 9780099429326