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The Snow Child
A Historical Fiction Novel by Eowyn Ivey
Subgenres:
- Magical Realism,
- Fairy Tale Retelling,
- Alaska, 1920
This book is for you if you're into...
- Wintry Alaskan settings with a touch of magic
- Fairytale vibes with mysterious, possibly imaginary children
- Stories where isolation and longing shape every moment
From Little Stack
Beautiful, heartwarming and haunting, this is one of my favourite winter stories of all time. Set in 1920, Alaska’s brutal landscape makes the perfect backdrop for this mesmerising tale.
Jack and Mabel decide to build the child they long for out of snow one day. It is gone the next morning, but then they meet Faina, a young girl who seems to have survived alone in the wilderness and hunts with a red fox at her side. Mysterious and ethereal, we are never sure if Faina is real or a figment of Jack and Mabel’s imagination.
Timeless and enchanting, this story feels like an old fairytale. Be prepared to fall in love when you read it.
In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair.
In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
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