Издания и произведения

Полный чувств, нежности, мягкой иронии роман о семье, охватывающий больше десятилетия. 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 Мозесом. История, рассказанная с трех точек зрения: Клары, Элизабет и вселившегося в дом Лайма – перемещает фокус с одного героя на другого, раскрывая все новые пласты драматических событий, прошлых,…

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.

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.

A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade--opens on a family in crisis: rebellious teenager Rose been missing for weeks with no word, and Rose's younger sister, the feisty and fierce Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping for her sibling's return. Enter thirtyish Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern town, where he promptly moves into the house next door--watched suspiciously by astonished and dismayed Clara, whose elderly friend, Mrs. Orchard, owns that home. Around the time of Rose's…