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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Chatto & Windus, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781784746834
Published: December 2026
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Page Extent: 320
Format: Paperback
RRP 395.00

Solace in Winter

Mary Lawson

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'She's one of my all-time favourite writers... utterly captivating' GRAHAM NORTON
'A beauty of a book... I kept turning the pages, desperate to know how it would end' RACHEL JOYCE
'A masterpiece of insight into what it means to be fully flawed and perfectly human. I loved it' JOANNE HARRIS
Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings a series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives - and loves - of an old man, a student on the run and an abandoned dog
It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives young men north across the Canadian border, widower Jack's quiet life is overturned by two accidents that happen on the bend in the road into town. First...

About the Author

Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson’s first novel, Crow Lake, was loved by critics and readers all over the world; it was translated into 26 languages and published in 29 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 was an instant bestseller in Canada and longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Mary came to England in the 1960s, and lives in Kingston-upon-Thames.

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