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      How a Woman Becomes a Lake

      by Marjorie Celona
      Published
      Mar 2020
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      Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
       
      From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...

      It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover.

      But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she's found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo's sons see Vera? What are they hiding about that day? And why are they so scared of their own father?

      Told from shifting perspectives, How a Woman Becomes a Lake is a compelling, lyrical novel about family, new beginnings, and costly mistakes, and asks, what do you do when the people who are meant to love you the most, fail?

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      Jan 2021 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9780349011370 ISBN10 0349011370
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      First Edition Mar 2020 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9780349011363 ISBN10 0349011362
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      Mar 2020 Penguin (Canada) ISBN13 9780735235830 ISBN10 073523583X
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      Mar 2020 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9780349011349 ISBN10 0349011346
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      Mar 2020 Hachette Audio UK ISBN10 B08243K9JK
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