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Wolf Winter
Cecilia Ekback
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Description for Wolf Winter
Paperback. A brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 b&w map. BIC Classification: FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306.
Winner of the 2016 HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Award. 'Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended.' Lee Child There are six homesteads on Blackasen Mountain. A day's journey away lies the empty town. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the Church summons her people through the snows. Then, even the oldest enemies will gather. But now it is summer, and new settlers are come. It is their two young daughters who find the dead man, not half an hour's walk from their cottage. The father is away. And whether stubborn, or stupid, or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest. To the wife who is not concerned when her husband does not come home for three days; to the man who laughs when he hears his brother is dead; to the priest who doesn't care; she asks and asks her questions, digging at the secrets of the mountain. They say a wolf made those wounds. But what wild animal cuts a body so clean?
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444789553
SKU
V9781444789553
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Cecilia Ekback
Cecilia Ekback was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK. In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, 'returning home' to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Wolf Winter is her first novel and she is at work on her second.You can find out more about Cecilia via her website www.ceciliaekback.com and you can follow her @CeciliaEkback on Twitter.
Reviews for Wolf Winter
It's a dark but colourfully told tale, richly laced with elements of gothic mystery.
Mail on Sunday
A compelling suspenseful story.
Sunday Times
Ekback is wonderful at evoking place, and the coming ling of real and spirit worlds works a treat. There is so much to enjoy.
Guardian
Memorable and interesting characters, this story will stay with me for a long time.
Cook Create Read blog
There are shivers aplenty in Cecilia Ekback's cracking atmospheric debut.
Saturday Express Magazine
Strong sense of place, robust characters and gothiky atmosphere.
Woman & Home
This debut by Swedish-born writer creeps up on its reader - steadily immersing them in its distant dangerous world. Eighty pages in, it is a surprise to look up and discover you are not snowbound.
Metro
This story of the struggle for survival of a family of Finnish settlers in Swedish Lapland in the early 18th Century is not for the faint hearted. The writer creates a convincing atmosphere of a very strange time in a very strange land... The details of how these people survive in an extraordinary landscape stays with you long after you have finished reading.
Daily Mail
Cecilia Ekback provides something fresh. . . haunting . . . ugly secrets are soon brought to light at the cost of great danger to Maija and her family. Highly individual fare.
Financial Times
Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended
Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers
Mail on Sunday
A compelling suspenseful story.
Sunday Times
Ekback is wonderful at evoking place, and the coming ling of real and spirit worlds works a treat. There is so much to enjoy.
Guardian
Memorable and interesting characters, this story will stay with me for a long time.
Cook Create Read blog
There are shivers aplenty in Cecilia Ekback's cracking atmospheric debut.
Saturday Express Magazine
Strong sense of place, robust characters and gothiky atmosphere.
Woman & Home
This debut by Swedish-born writer creeps up on its reader - steadily immersing them in its distant dangerous world. Eighty pages in, it is a surprise to look up and discover you are not snowbound.
Metro
This story of the struggle for survival of a family of Finnish settlers in Swedish Lapland in the early 18th Century is not for the faint hearted. The writer creates a convincing atmosphere of a very strange time in a very strange land... The details of how these people survive in an extraordinary landscape stays with you long after you have finished reading.
Daily Mail
Cecilia Ekback provides something fresh. . . haunting . . . ugly secrets are soon brought to light at the cost of great danger to Maija and her family. Highly individual fare.
Financial Times
Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended
Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers