<strong>Crow Lake</strong> is that rare find as first novel so quietly assured so compelling and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense... » 

Crow Lake is that rare find as first novel so quietly assured so compelling and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense at once that this is the real thing a literary experience to relish a book to lose yourself in and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centre stage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious and divisive. Crow Lake is that rare find as first novel so quietly assured so compelling and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled that you sense at once that this is the real thing a literary experience to relish a book to lose yourself in and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. Centre stage are the Morrisons whose tragedy is insidious and divisive. «