Mary Lawson joins us to talk about all her novels – welcome to episode 122!

I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, but THE Mary Lawson – Canadian author of Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, Road Ends, and A Town Called Solace – joins us in this episode to talk through her work. We discuss how she approaches writing a novel, some of her creative decisions, and a little hint about her next book.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode:

Temptation by János Székely

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Skylark by Dezső Kosztolány

Embers by Sándor Márai

Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert

Margaret Laurence

Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘For Esmeé—With Love and Squalor’ by J.D. Salinger

Alice Munro

Margaret Atwood

Mick Herron

Anne Enright

Sebastian Barry

Colm Tóibín

L.M. Montgomery

Thomas King

Michael Crummey

Michael Ondaatje

Brian Moore

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

Arthur Miller

Road Ends by Mary Lawson

Elizabeth Strout

Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale

Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge