A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson'I've been trying to tell everybody I know about Mary Lawson [Each of her novels is] just a marvel' ANNE TYLERClara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight year old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief stricken and bewildered. Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arrived in this small northern

Tatty becomes ever more aware of the strange reality of her home life

But how could she have predicted her own personal war

taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots

an unforgettable sibling story and a remarkable novel about family

he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me

Swimming is an introspective and quiet sport in a chaotic age

and turns to sex work to create new notions of love

Love offers up a delightfully comic

Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters

a man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history’s suitcase

moving multi-generational family saga

'A Squash and a Squeeze' is a rhyming fable that tells of a little old lady who thinks her home is too small