Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, THE SNOW CHILD, was published in twenty-six languages, and became an international bestseller. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 2013, and Eowyn won the International Author of the Year category at the 2012 National Book Awards. A former bookseller, Eowyn lives in Palmer, Alaska, with her family.
A clever, ambitious novel
*The Sunday Times*
A stunning and intriguing novel combining the epic adventurous
sweep of Alaska with minutely beautifully observed details - the
reader finishes it wiser and richer
*Rosamund Lupton*
A dazzling depiction of love, endurance, courage and wonder, and a
worthy successor to THE SNOW CHILD
*Ron Rash*
Absorbing... a superior page turner
*Daily Mail*
Absorbing... their love for each other is beautifully rendered
*The Times*
If I read another novel this year that I love as much as this I
will be entirely surprised. This is a very special book indeed and
Eowyn Ivey is an incredibly gifted writer, bringing to us all the
wonder, beautiful strangeness and fragility of the Alaska she
loves
*Kate Atherton*
Absorbing and highly imaginative... Ivey, clearly a writer of
prodigious talent, effortlessly knits these elements together to
create an utterly enchanting read. Part intrepid adventure, part
deeply affecting romance, this first-class novel is, at its heart,
a love letter to the 'vast and cold beauty' of the last
frontier
*Daily Express*
Enchanting... a fascinating, adventurous tale
*Grazia*
A rich and involving story of endurance, love and the Alaskan
wilderness that captured me from the off
*Woman & Home*
Charming, whimsical and sometimes heat-breaking
*Red*
Entrancing... In this splendid adventure novel, Ivey captures
Alaska's beauty and brutality, not just preserving history, but
keeping it alive
*Publisher's Weekly*
Ivey's prose glitters...if this one doesn't win her a major award,
I'll eat my trapper's hat
*The Tablet*
Unique... absorbing
*Stylist (Book Wars Winner)*
Beautifully lyrical
*Sunday Express*
The precision of such descriptions of the natural world ground the
novel in a gritty verisimilitude that then allows Ivey to build a
fanciful, daring imaginative edifice: the meticulous realism of the
foundation allows the fabulous elements of her fiction to soar
*Guardian*
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