Mary Lawson

Author

Mary Lawson is a Canadian-British novelist whose quiet, emotionally devastating fiction is set in the remote communities of Northern Ontario. Born in a small town in Ontario, she moved to England and studied Sociology at University College London. Crow Lake follows four orphaned siblings in a remote farming community who struggle to... stay together after their parents' deaths, and the long shadow that childhood events cast over adult life. The novel was a New York Times bestseller, an international book club favourite, and was praised for its restrained, powerful prose and its devastating emotional impact. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers quietly devastating literary fiction about family, sacrifice, and the wounds of childhood — novels that prove the most powerful stories are sometimes the quietest. Read more Show less