STONE ANGEL It was also in Vancouver that Laurence began to write her first novel with a Canadian subject. Completed and published in 1964,The Stone Angel was the first in Laurence's famous series of novels set in the fictional Manitoba town of Manawaka. After separating from her husband in 1962,she moved with her two children to England,where she settled first in London for a year and then at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire where they would reside for most of the next decade. 用年• It was also in Vancouver that Laurence began to write her first novel with a Canadian subject. Completed and published in 1964, The Stone Angel was the first in Laurence's famous series of novels set in the fictional Manitoba town of Manawaka. • After separating from her husband in 1962, she moved with her two children to England, where she settled first in London for a year and then at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire where they would reside for most of the next decade