Join a Q&A with author and McGill alumna Mary Lawson, BSc'68, author of Road Ends, The Other Side of the Bridge, Crow Lake, and, most recently, A Town Called Solace, the McGill Virtual Alumni Book Club's Spring-Summer 2022 choice!

New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart," is back with a fresh and timely novel just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and told in three distinct, compelling points of view, the novel cuts back and forth among these unforgettable characters to uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect them. A Town Called Solace is a masterful, suspenseful, darkly funny, and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers.

Mary Lawson was born and brought up in a small farming community in Ontario. She is the author of the nationally and internationally bestselling novels 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. The Other Side of the Bridge was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. A Town Called Solace is her fourth novel. Lawson lives in England but returns to Canada frequently.

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