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The Other Side of the Bridge

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099437260

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Other Side of the Bridge

Arthur and Jake: brothers, yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy, dutiful, and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger and reckless, a dangerous to know. When Laura arrives in their 1930s rural community, an already uneasy relationship is driven to breaking point...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099437260

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A beautiful read, on every level

    Independent on Sunday

  • 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

  • Evokes beautifully the big joys and sorrows of most people, no matter how small their town

    The Times

  • Discreetly powerful

    Daily Telegraph

  • This is a fine book - an enthralling read, both straightforward and wonderfully intricate

    Guardian

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About the Author

Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson is a Canadian author. Her first novel, Crow Lake (2002), is a tense and heart-breaking drama of family love and buried resentment set in rural Ontario, carefully crafted and sparkling with humour, which won the 2003 McKitterick Prize. Her second novel, The Other Side of the Bridge (2006), is the compelling and vivid story of two generations of a family who are tragically torn apart by the Second World War, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and selected for the Richard and Judy book club. Her most recent novel, Road Ends (2013), tells the enthralling tale of the Cartwright family unravelling in the aftermath of a tragedy, set against the chilling backdrop of a frozen landscape in the first half of the 20th century.

Mary Lawson

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