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After rereading it a couple of weeks ago, i decided to see if mary lawson had written anything else, and ordered her other two books, both of which i read over the weekend. In this masterful, enthralling, tender novel, which ranges from the ontario silver rush of the early 1900s to swinging london in the 1960s, she 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. Has it been a long time since you last played and maybe youre a little rusty. Why novelist mary lawsons imagination is like an illsuited. Road ends, completes a trilogy that began with crow lake, her bestselling first novel published to much. Jul 08, 2014 mary lawson delivers compassion and heartbreak in equal measure in her most stunning novel to date.
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