'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it's always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...'
Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath...Both a pilgrimage and an investigation into family secrets, Yuki's journey is the one she always knew she'd have to make, and one of the most charming and haunting in recent fiction.
By:
Mick Jackson Imprint: Faber & Faber Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Main Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 192g ISBN:9780571254262 ISBN 10: 0571254268 Pages: 272 Publication Date:25 January 2017 Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Mick Jackson is the prize winning author of the novels, The Underground Man, Five Boys and The Widow's Tale. He also published, with the illustrator David Roberts, two acclaimed curiosities, Ten Sorry Tales and Bears of England.