Lawrence's 2002 novel,
The Lightkeeper's Daughter, though set contemporaneously, also deals with the past.
Born in northern Ontario, Lawrence is the second of four children. Before he was two, his family moved to Toronto, and then proceeded to travel from home to home around Canada from Calgary to Victoria, British Columbia. By the time Lawrence left school, he had, as he noted on his Web site, "lived in eleven different houses and gone to nine different schools." Lawrence further noted, "It was hard at the time, as I was very shy and quite friendless, but now I think I was lucky to have grown up like that." One fond memory from his childhood is his father reading to him and his brother at bedtime. "He used funny voices for the characters," Lawrence recalled on his Web site, "and made the stories seem utterly real. I remember being enchanted with Stuart Little, and being terrified by old Blind Pew and his roguish lot from Treasure Island. It gave me a love of books, and of reading." Encouraged by a third-grade teacher in his writing, he also wrote picture books for his younger brother about a beloved stuffed duck.
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