Mary Lawson

work that helped earn her, of course, a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Mary Lawson writes with a similar intimacy about family tensions and the emotional weight of rural Ontario landscapes in novels such as the brilliant Crow Lake, while Louise Penny, the much-loved Louise Penny, explores a gentler, more comforting vision of Canada through Quebec-set mysteries like Still Life, where villages, forests and changing seasons create a deeply atmospheric backdrop.

Together, I think these female writers capture a country that is reflective, quietly literary, shaped by nature and often preoccupied with belonging, solitude and community.

I agree.

It does, doesn't it? Yes.

And also Mary Lawson has a new hardback in November, and I really love Mary Lawson.

Oh, me too.

I've just read the advanced reading copy of Winter in Solace.