Mary Lawson: A Town Called Solace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 [2022] paperback ZHBFI the poet lived with the

the poet lived with the O'Toole family in Stillorgan for six months at a crucial point in his life

He made a career of looking evil in the eye - and understanding it

and the fast-talking

He's inching closer to Britain's levers of power - but now the one man who knows his secret has reappeared

the more he is torn between his obligations to them and his feelings toward a beautiful westernized Muslim woman

Mary Lawson: A Town Called Solace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 [2022] paperback ZHBFI the poet lived with the'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler Clara's rebellious older sister is missing. Grief stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened. Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the house next door and within hours gets a visit from the police. Elizabeth is thinking about a crime committed thirty years ago, one that had tragic consequences