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This slow-burning story is set in the rural 'badlands' of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground.
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Crow Lake is that rare find a first novel so quietly assured so compelling and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish a book to lose yourself in and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centerstage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious and divisive. Orphaned young Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protege her curious 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. She thinks she's outgrown her family who were once her entire world - but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.
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The Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young.Kate found an escape from the legacy of their dark past in her passion for the natural world. Now a zoologist far away from the small farming community where she grew up, she thinks she's outgrown her three brothers, who were once her entire world.But Kate can't seem to escape her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past.'I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each one of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler, bestselling author of French Braid'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it' Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat'Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity...a compelling and serious page-turner' Observer
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Crow Lake : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099429326 : : 06 Feb 2003 : This slow-burning story is set in the rural "badlands"" of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground."
- 0099429322
- 9780099429326
- Mary Lawson
- 6 February 2003
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 304
- New edition
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