A Town Called Solace
A Booker Prize-nominated literary novel about the losses that shape us
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4.4 • 108 Ratings
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
As a seven-year-old girl watches for her missing sister, a stranger moves in next door and a neighbour’s old secret starts to resurface…
In Solace, Northern Ontario, seven-year-old Clara waits at the window for her missing sister Rose.
Next door, Mrs Orchard’s house stands empty, Until stranger Liam Kane arrives to claim the home she has left him in her will.
Clara sees Liam as an intruder. Liam, newly divorced and unemployed, has no idea why Mrs Orchard chose him.
In hospital, Elizabeth Orchard looks back over the decades, to the child she once loved and the mistake that shaped two families. As the truth about Rose begins to emerge, all three of them must decide how much of the past can be repaired.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, A Town Called Solace is a tender, quietly suspenseful literary novel about a missing girl, small-town secrets, found family and the chance to change before it is too late.
'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler
'Close to perfection' The Times
'Exquisitely poignant' Liane Moriarty
‘Will break your heart’ Graham Norton
Customer Reviews
Solace
I loved this book but was left wanting more .
Beautifully written
Engaging storytelling. Beautifully descriptive of wild northern Canada. The only downside was that it ended so abruptly, I would have loved to keep reading about what happened to the characters. Will read more of her books.
A town called Solace - Mary Lawson
One of the best books I have read for quite some time. I feel sad that I have come to the end of it. It was uplifting , empathetic but still very grounded. Can't wait to read more of Her books.
10 out of 10 👌