Light on Snow
Registered by Plum-crazy of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 3/16/2016
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1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.'
The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year- old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice.
Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
This is my favourite of Shreve's novels, I loved the way it kept me guessing as to what would happen...would Nicky get the big sister she wanted.....& what would become of Baby Doris.
A really engrossing story, with a final chapter that bought a lump to my throat...(sniff!)
The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year- old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice.
Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
This is my favourite of Shreve's novels, I loved the way it kept me guessing as to what would happen...would Nicky get the big sister she wanted.....& what would become of Baby Doris.
A really engrossing story, with a final chapter that bought a lump to my throat...(sniff!)
Journal Entry 2 by Plum-crazy at Creetown Heritage Museum in Creetown, Scotland United Kingdom on Sunday, July 24, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (7/24/2016 UTC) at Creetown Heritage Museum in Creetown, Scotland United Kingdom
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Released as part of the CHRISTMAS IN JULY Challenge (#20)
Congratulations - You've found a travelling book !
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