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Summary and Reviews of A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
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CLARA
There were four boxes. Big ones. They must have lots of things in them because they were heavy, you could tell by the way the man walked when he carried them in, stooped over, knees bent. He brought them right into Mrs. Orchard's house, next door to Clara's, that first evening and put them on the floor in the living room and just left them there. That meant the boxes didn't have necessary things in them, things he needed straight away like pyjamas, or he'd have unpacked them.
The boxes were in the middle of the floor, which made Clara fidgety. Every time the man came into the living room he had to walk around them. If he'd put them against a wall he wouldn't have to do that and it would have looked much neater. And why would he bring them in from his car and then not unpack them? At first Clara had thought it meant that he was delivering them for Mrs. Orchard and she would unpack them herself when she got hom
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A orillas sektion lago
MUCH!
I’m afraid I’m going to sound like a broken record when inom say how much inom really LOVE this book. Recently I’ve had a good run with a few books that are absolutely terrific….
And
THIS NOVEL IS TOO!!!!!
It’s a *REALLY* special novel to me….
Effortless reading…. smooth
gorgeous - addicting-prose….
exactly the type of literary fiction inom love best….
I was sad — so that must be said—
but “Crow Lake and the Morrison family, deeply resonated with me.
Just SOOOO WONDERFUL (haha, those gods two words have become my signature autograph lately )….
But…
ITS TRUE!!
…..by golly…this is the BEST BOOK!!!
And given my background of having lost a father to death suddenly - at age 4 - and all the things that unfolded…..
I was incredibly choked up during about 50% of reading it. (throughout)
I read parts of this novel while feeling sick & horrible associated with the devastation in Florida — the building that collapsed….
Also….
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The Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield
This article relates to A Town Called Solace
In the acknowledgments at the end of her book, A Town Called Solace, author Mary Lawson writes, "The town of Solace exists only in my imagination, but the setting is very real: the vast and beautiful area of lakes and rocks and forests known as the Canadian Shield, in Northern Ontario."
A continental shield is a large expanse of land where Precambrian rocks are exposed through the Earth's crust. These formations are ancient; the Precambrian era is the earliest of the planet's geological eras, encompassing all of the time before the evolutionary development of complex life. Some of the rocks found on continental shields are thought to be as old as the Earth itself (around 4.5 billion years). Shields appear on every continent, and they are geologically stable, meaning they are little affected by tectonic events.
The Canadian Shield, centered on Hudson Bay, is the largest and best-known.