6/22/2023 0 Comments Light on snow by anita shreveShreve’s language is always sparse and deceptively simple. Through the eyes of her female narrator we also get to glimpse the bond between a daughter and her grief-absorbed father, and, in turn, the loss felt by a young girl for her dead mother. But she also explores family relationships, the responsibilities we have to one another through thick and thin, the fine line between happiness and despair, and the ties that bind us to people and places. In Light On Snow Anita Shreve focuses on her usual themes of love and loss. When they stumble upon a newborn baby girl left abandoned in the woods little do they realise the maelstrom that is about to follow. As both finally settle into familiar patterns and routines, an unexpected “find” one wintry day impinges on the natural order that they have worked so hard to achieve. Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father are starting life anew in rural New Hampshire following a family tragedy. Fiction – paperback Abacus 288 pages 2005.
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