Crow Lake

Crow Lake

by Mary Lawson (Author)

Synopsis

Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story set in the rural 'badlands' of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape, and even laying too much store by education can be subtly dangerous. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and hideous events occur - offstage. Centrestage, are the Morrisons whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is in reality insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison, was her older brother Matt's protege, her fascination for pondlife fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist she can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. And she thinks she's outgrown her family - Luke, Matt and Bo, who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension, paying out her story with heartbreaking humour and consummate control, so as to overturn one's expectations right to the end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable - a quiet masterpiece that deserves to be bestseller.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 28 Feb 2002

ISBN 10: 0701173211
ISBN 13: 9780701173210
Book Overview: Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel, so quietly assured, so utterly unputdownable, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you know at once that this is the real thing - a literary experience to shout about, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch.
Prizes: Winner of McKitterick Prize 2003.

Media Reviews
'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping. I read it in a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it.', Joanne Harris, Author of Chocolat .'Beautifully written, carefully balanced, Mary Lawson constructs a history of sacrifice, emotional isolation and family love without sounding a false note', Daily Mail .'Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity-a compelling and serious page-turner', Observer
Author Bio
Mary Lawson was born and brought up in a farming community in Ontario. A distant relative of L.M.Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, she came to England in 1968, is married with two grown-up sons and lives in Surrey.