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Set in the late 1960s, the story revolves around three main characters: Edward, a banker, and two of his children: Megan and Tom. Megan Cartwright is 21 and has never left her family but then moves to London and discovers her full potential.
Nov 12, 2013 · Mary Lawson's Road Ends is a brilliantly layered novel about sacrifice, family relationships, and the weight of our responsibility to those we love. Using the frozen Canadian winter landscape as a metaphor for how each of her protagonists is stuck, Lawson shows the inability of Tom to move forward, of Edward to involve himself in his ...
Aug 15, 2014 · It’s midsummer in the tiny fictional town of Struan when Tom and his friends see an ominous sign: “road ends.” The forest, literally and figuratively, absorbs the road: Beyond is a 200-foot...
Nuanced, compelling, and searingly honest, Road Ends illuminates how we each make peace with the demands of love. Mary Lawson delivers compassion and heartbreak in equal measure in her most stunning novel to date.
Jul 8, 2014 · Nuanced, compelling, and searingly honest, Road Ends illuminates how we each make peace with the demands of love. Mary Lawson delivers compassion and heartbreak in...
Jul 8, 2014 · From an acclaimed writer whose work invites comparisons to Elizabeth Strout, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford comes a brilliantly layered novel about self-sacrifice, family relationships, and the weight of our responsibility to those we love.
Bestselling author of Crow Lake, Mary Lawson writes the very best kind of commercial literary fiction: her brilliance is to take characters and situations that on the face of it seem simple, but like all good writers, she mines them for gold. They are the stuff of life. Roads End will delight her legions of fans.
