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Title Statement | A town called Solace / Mary Lawson. |
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Author | Lawson, Mary, 1946- |
Publication | ©2021Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada,[2021] |
Extent of Item | 292 pages ; |
ISBN | 0735281270 9780735281271 |
Other Number | 3949218 |
Summary | As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While standing at the window, Clara keeps an eye out for Rose and an eye on Mrs. Orchard's house. Then, one afternoon, a strange young man in a strange car pulls into Mrs. Orchard's driveway and proceeds to move into the house as if he owns the place. Which it turns out he does: Mrs. Orchard has died and left it to him. Soon we discover that Clara's beloved Mrs. Orchard has a complicated and tragic past, and the real mystery at the heart of this novel is what happened between her and Liam, the man in the car. Solace is told in three distinct, compelling voices--Clara's, Mrs. Orchard's, and Liam's--cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we're born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Intergenerational relations--Fiction |
Older women--Fiction--Death | |
Family crises--Fiction | |
Missing persons--Fiction | |
Intimacy (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction--Ontario, Northern | |
By Location | Ontario, Northern--Fiction |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |