Can’t Wait Wednesday #205: Solace in Winter by Mary Lawson

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #205 pick. Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf (opens in a new window).

Expected Publication: November 10, 2026 by Knopf Canada
Length: 320 pages / TBD.
Narrator: TBD.
Genre: Historical Fiction

From The Publisher:

🇨🇦 Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings a series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives—and loves—of an old man, a student on the run and an abandoned dog.

It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives young men north across the Canadian border, widower Jack’s quiet life is overturned by two accidents that happen on the bend in the road into town. First comes a dog in a bad way. Next a draft dodger, seriously injured, lying in the snow. Suddenly, Jack’s cabin is busy with a growing cast of characters—and all the baggage, dreams and desires they’re carrying.

The atmosphere chills when Jack’s daughter Sally drops by one day and doesn’t like what she sees. What Sally does next changes everything, for everyone but herself.

This exquisite snow globe of a novel is a refuge, a story of connection and moral complexity set in the beloved world of Mary Lawson’s bestselling, prize-winning Crow Lake, The Other Side of the Bridge, Road Ends and A Town Called Solace.

Why I Can’t Wait to Read Solace in Winter:

I’m on a quest to read more Canadian authors and I am deeply intrigued by the synopsis for this book. I enjoy stories of connections and helping others and can’t wait to see what role Sally plays in this story.