Other Side of the Bridge, Paperback

Set in the far north of Canada, this is a wide reaching novel from the author of Crow Lake. Longlisted for the Booker Prize, it's the story of two generations, with an irresistible emotional undertow. 'Like the great 19th-century novelists of provincial life, Mary Lawson is fluent in the desperate intensity of the small, individual dramas of respectable people, and she paints an eloquent picture' Sunday Telegraph