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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (view source)
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|title=The Snow Child
|sort=Snow Child
|author=Eowyn Ivey
|reviewer=Robin Leggett
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=9780755380527
|pages=432
|publisher=Headline Review
|date=February 2012
|website=http://http://www.eowynivey.com/
|video=9EPn9GY1g_g
|summary=Magical and beautiful, this re-telling of an old Russian fairytale about a snow child is set in 1920s Alaska and is full of charm and human warmth. A warming winter tale for the child within us all.
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'''Richard and Judy Book Club Autumn 2012'''
The heart of Alaskan native, Eowyn Ivey's debut novel is a re-telling of the Russian fairy tale ''Snegurochka'' or ''The Snow Child''. Set here in Alaska in the 1920s, Jack and Mabel have moved from the East coast to start a new life, apart from anything to help Mabel get over the grief of having lost her only child in childbirth. Life in Alaska is tough and Jack struggles to farm his new homestead. Then in the first snowfall of the season, a playful snowball fight leads to the couple building a snowman, or more accurately a snowgirl. The next morning the snowgirl has vanished along with the mittens and scarf that adorned her and Jack sees a ghostly figure, possibly a young girl, running in the woods. Can they have created a snow child? Is this their longed for daughter?
It's a heart-warming story for the child within that is probably best read in the depths of winter.
For more Arctic fiction, you may also enjoy [[A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside]] while younger readers - and I don't see why teens couldn't read this book too - then there's more Alaskan fiction in [[Looking For Alaska by John Green]]. You might also enjoy [[Light Boxes by Shane Jones]], which also has an ethereal quality. {{amazontext|amazon=0755380525}}{{amazonUStext|amazon=0755380525}}
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