Solace in Winter

Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives—and loves—of an old man, a student on the run and a dog in a bad way.

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 comes a dog in a bad way. Next a draft-dodger, seriously injured, lying in the snow. Suddenly, Jack’s cabin is busy with a growing cast of characters – and all the baggage, dreams and desires they’re carrying.

The atmosphere chills when Jack’s daughter Sally drops by one day and doesn’t like what she sees. What Sally does next changes everything, for everyone but herself.

This exquisite snow globe of a novel is a refuge, a story of connection and moral complexity set in the beloved world of Mary Lawson’s bestselling, prize-winning Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, Road Ends and A Town Called Solace. | MARY LAWSON was born and brought up in a small farming community in Ontario. She is the author of three previous nationally and internationally bestselling novels, A Town Called Solace, Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, and Road Ends. Crow Lake was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as a Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. A Town Called Solace and The Other Side of the Bridge were longlisted for the Booker Prize. Lawson lives in England but returns to Canada frequently.