# Solace in Winter

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- Book: [Solace in Winter](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-lawson/solace-in-winter) ([Solace in Winter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-lawson/solace-in-winter.md))
- Authors: [Mary Lawson](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-lawson)
- Publisher: Random House
- ISBN: 978-17-8474-683-4
- Published: 2026-11-19
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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 HARRISWinter 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 dogIt 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.