Where Are the Snows

The most exhilarating novel Ive read all year.Scotland on Sunday A richstory of the heart told through a harlequin pattern of alternating voices eachof which is... » 

The most exhilarating novel Ive read all year.Scotland on Sunday A richstory of the heart told through a harlequin pattern of alternating voices eachof which is a work of real imaginative insight.Marie Claire Christopher andAlexandras passion for each other raises eyebrows and invites envy. Thisbeautiful blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from homeabandoning their two teenage children. Their sudden departure is an act ofglorious willfulness. Life in the countries they visit is nothing more than abackdrop to their love affair. Fifteen years later Alexandra is in remoteBolivia with a lover young enough to be her son and Christopher is in Venicedesolate and alone but for the pigeons and prostitutes. Tormented by pastmistakes neither can accept that they may never meet again. «