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    Mary Lawson's family cottage ca. 1920. (Courtesy of Mary Lawson)

    Mary Lawson: Why I write about the Canadian Shield

    The Canadian novelist on her profound, unreasoning love of the landscape: ‘The the way the mist lifted slowly off the lake in the early morning, the smoothness of water sliding over your skin, the clear looping call of the whippoorwill’