Nicky's mother and baby sister have recently died in a car crash. She and her father find a new-born baby abandoned in the snow-bound woods. The mother of the abandoned child seeks them out. These bare facts are woven into a lucid, beautifully observed and moving story of grief, forgiveness and hope seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old - no banal happy endings but real, evolving truths. One of Shreve's very best.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 60 Spring 2011 ) |
