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Mary Lawson

    1 januari 1946

    Mary Lawson is een Canadese romanschrijfster wiens werken zich afspelen in Noord-Ontario. Haar romans duiken in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en familiebanden met scherpzinnige observatie en diepgaand inzicht. Lawson onderzoekt regelmatig thema's als liefde, verlies en de zoektocht naar betekenis. Haar verhaalstijl wordt gekenmerkt door een suggestieve sfeer en meeslepende personages.

    Mary Lawson
    Il sentiero per Crow Lake
    ГОРОДОК, ЧТО ЗОВЕТСЯ ГАРМОНИЯ. Gorodok, chto zovetsja Garmonija
    A Town Called Solace
    Road Ends
    The other side of the bridge
    De vijverjaren
    • Полный чувств, нежности, мягкой иронии роман о семье, о встречах и расставаниях, о потерях и обретениях, но прежде всего - о любви и о преданности близким. Юная бунтарка Роза пропала, ее младшая сестра Клара проводит дни у окна, надеясь увидеть, как та возвращается. Девочка наблюдает, как в соседний дом входит незнакомый мужчина. Клара прекрасно знает, что в доме живет одинокая Элизабет, которая сейчас находится в больнице. Клара пообещала соседке присматривать за домом, а главное - за оставшимся жильцом, котом Моисеем. История, рассказанная с трех точек зрения: Клары, Элизабет и вселившегося в дом Лайама — перемещает фокус с одного героя на другого, раскрывая все новые пл&

      ГОРОДОК, ЧТО ЗОВЕТСЯ ГАРМОНИЯ. Gorodok, chto zovetsja Garmonija2024
      4,5
    • A Town Called Solace

      • 302bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler Clara's rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened. Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the house next door and within hours gets a visit from the police. Elizabeth is thinking about a crime committed thirty years ago, one that had tragic consequences for two families. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies. 'Will break your heart' Graham Norton 'Exquisitely poignant' Liane Moriarty

      A Town Called Solace2021
      4,0
    • Road Ends

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      On a perfect August morning in 1967, above a river just outside a small town in the north of Canada, a young man meets his death. And so begins the unravelling of his best friend Tom’s already precarious family… Eighteen months on, and the town of Struan is in the grip of winter. Still reeling from his friend’s death, Tom has dropped out and spends his days driving a snow plough. His mother has yet another new baby and is nesting upstairs, increasingly lost in her own world. His father, Edward, retreats to his study and his diaries, unable to cope with his growing, unruly family. There are so many brothers in the house that Tom has almost lost count, but Adam, who is only four, somehow can’t be ignored… Their one sister – capable, dependable, formidable Megan – who used to run the show, has escaped to London and is finally living her own life. But then come disturbing letters from home… In this masterful, enthralling, and tender novel, which takes us from the silver rush in Northern Ontario in the early 1900s to London in the 60s, Mary Lawson gently reveals the intricacies and anguish of family life, the push and pull of responsibility and individual desire, the way we can face tragedy and, in time, hope to start again.

      Road Ends2014
      4,0
    • The troubled relationship between two brothers--Arthur Dunn, the dutiful eldest son, and the mercurial, dangerous Jake--escalates when they are both drawn to a beautiful young woman.

      The other side of the bridge2006
      4,3
    • De vijverjaren

      • 286bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Een jonge Canadese vrouw worstelt met onverwerkte jeugdherinneringen uit de tijd dat ze als zevenjarige haar beide ouders verloor.

      De vijverjaren2002
      4,0