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Nov 12, 2013 · Road Ends by Mary Larson is set in Struan a fictional town in the North of Canada and revels the story of the intricacies and anguish of family life and how we face tragedy and the pull of responsibilities of family life.
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Road Ends is the third novel by Canadian novelist Mary Lawson and set in Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario as are both her previous novels. Plot summary. Set in the late 1960s, the story revolves around three main characters: Edward, a banker, and two of his children: Megan and Tom.
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 equal measure in her most stunning novel to date.
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...
Jul 8, 2014 · Road Ends is a novel by Mary Lawson about a family in rural Canada struggling with tragedy, grief and isolation. The novel follows the eldest daughter, Megan, who leaves home for London and the impact of her absence on her siblings and parents.
Torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice. 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.
Nov 12, 2013 · Roads End brings us a family unravelling in the aftermath of tragedy: Edward Cartwright, struggling to escape the legacy of a violent past; Emily, his wife, cloistered in her room with yet another new baby, increasingly unaware of events outside the bedroom door; Tom, their eldest son, twenty-five years old but home again, unable to come to ...
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