Light on Snow

Anita Shreve

Oct 2004 · Sold by Little, Brown

About this ebook

What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.

Ratings and reviews

A great book overall but I felt there could have at least been 50 more pages in the end to finish up a few loose ends. (I don't want to spoil anything for anyone so I'll leave it at that) But I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I know some books leave you to "imagine" the complete ending but I felt this left a little too much out. Also on another note, this definitely shouldn't be listed under "romance"

Almost a 4 star. I liked this book. My first Anita S book and the best so far.

Best book ever

About the author

Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of more than fifteen novels, including Testimony; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize. She lives in Massachusetts.