The Snow Falcon
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From the back cover
'In a small, remote Canadian town, Susan Baker and her son Jamie, are trying to piece together their lives shattered by the accidental death of Susan's husband. Jamie, deeply traumatised, has not spoken since that fateful day. Things are tough enough; but then a new neighbour moves in.
The return of Michael Somers to Little River Bend after a prolonged absence causes feelings to run high among the tight-knit community, and Susan is drawn unwillingly into a complex drama with origins twenty years old. Fiercely protective of Jamie, and wary of a man whose early life is the subject of countless rumours, she is nevertheless witness to a slowly developing relationship between her neighbour and her son, after Michael has rescued a rare falcon injured by a hunter.
Absorbed by the plight of the beautiful wild bird, while all around are caught up in the small town's rivalries and intrigues, two people who thought they'd never feel anything but hurt gradually come to confront the possibility of healing, change, and hope'
Someone at work thrust this book into my hands and said 'Read this book Rob you will enjoy it'. I don't know if I would go to the extreme of forcing this upon someone but I did enjoy the book. Basically Michael Somers moves back to the town of his birth after some twenty years away. After serving time in prison he is not too welcome in this close community and gossip runs wild has to the reasons he was in prison. The one person who makes him feel welcome is Susan, who along with her child is trying to come to terms with the death of her husband a year or so earlier. Susan's son Jamie, so traumatised by his father's death has not spoken a word to anyone since that fateful day.
Whilst taking care of a falcon he's found in the wild, Michael begins an unspoken relationship with Jamie, and then his mother Susan.
It's a nice story, but one of those stories where you know what the outcome is going to be, you have to people, Michael and Susan who are trying to cope with events of the past and you have a mute little boy, you know how the story ends don't you?
If you have this book on your shelf waiting to be read, read it, I think you will enjoy it.
'In a small, remote Canadian town, Susan Baker and her son Jamie, are trying to piece together their lives shattered by the accidental death of Susan's husband. Jamie, deeply traumatised, has not spoken since that fateful day. Things are tough enough; but then a new neighbour moves in.
The return of Michael Somers to Little River Bend after a prolonged absence causes feelings to run high among the tight-knit community, and Susan is drawn unwillingly into a complex drama with origins twenty years old. Fiercely protective of Jamie, and wary of a man whose early life is the subject of countless rumours, she is nevertheless witness to a slowly developing relationship between her neighbour and her son, after Michael has rescued a rare falcon injured by a hunter.
Absorbed by the plight of the beautiful wild bird, while all around are caught up in the small town's rivalries and intrigues, two people who thought they'd never feel anything but hurt gradually come to confront the possibility of healing, change, and hope'
Someone at work thrust this book into my hands and said 'Read this book Rob you will enjoy it'. I don't know if I would go to the extreme of forcing this upon someone but I did enjoy the book. Basically Michael Somers moves back to the town of his birth after some twenty years away. After serving time in prison he is not too welcome in this close community and gossip runs wild has to the reasons he was in prison. The one person who makes him feel welcome is Susan, who along with her child is trying to come to terms with the death of her husband a year or so earlier. Susan's son Jamie, so traumatised by his father's death has not spoken a word to anyone since that fateful day.
Whilst taking care of a falcon he's found in the wild, Michael begins an unspoken relationship with Jamie, and then his mother Susan.
It's a nice story, but one of those stories where you know what the outcome is going to be, you have to people, Michael and Susan who are trying to cope with events of the past and you have a mute little boy, you know how the story ends don't you?
If you have this book on your shelf waiting to be read, read it, I think you will enjoy it.
