'She's one of my all-time favourite writers... utterly captivating' GRAHAM NORTON
'A beauty of a book... I kept turning the pages, desperate to know how it would end' RACHEL JOYCE
'A masterpiece of insight into what it means to be fully flawed and perfectly human. I loved it' JOANNE HARRIS

Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings a series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives and loves of an old man, a student on the run and an abandoned dog

It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives young men north across the Canadian border, widower Jack s quiet life is overturned by two accidents that happen on the bend in the road into town. First comes a dog in a bad way. Next a draft-dodger, seriously injured, lying in the snow. Suddenly, Jack s cabin is busy with a growing cast of characters and all the baggage, dreams and desires they re carrying.

But the atmosphere chills when Jack s daughter Sally drops by one day and doesn t like what she sees...

This exquisite snow globe of a novel is a refuge, a story of connection and moral complexity set in the beloved world of Mary Lawson s bestselling, prizewinning Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, Road Ends and A Town Called Solace.