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Saturday 31 December 2011

12 Days of a LitPig Christmas: 7

On the 7th day of Christmas my LitPig brought to me ...

SEVEN KATE ATKINSON'S
SIX UNSUED COOKBOOKS
FIVE CRIME FESTS
FOUR DAVID MITCHELLS
THREE MARGARET ATWOODS
TWO HOMER SAGAS
and

A BOX SET OF ROALD DAHL BOOKS

Each day I want to share the writing of an author that I read for the first time in 2011.   These are my personal choices - you may know many of them, but perhaps one or two will be new to you ... So why not try a new author in 2012.  
July 2011:
ANITA SHREVE - Light on Snow
Anita's exquisite prose is mesmerising - the quality of her writing is something we all should aspire to.  This is a gentle story of a father and daughter who find a baby in the snow.  The baby's mother arrives into their lives and slowly the history of all the three main characters unfolds.  This is told from the 13 year-old girls viewpoint and is sometimes painfully sad, yet still ends on a hopeful note.  You really do feel you are immersed in a North American winter.  A truly beautiful book.


Other novels by Anita Shreve:

Past the island, Drifting(1975)

Eden Close(1989)
Strange fits of passion(1991)
Where or when(1993)
Resistance (1995)
The weight of water (1997)
The pilot’s wife(1998)
Fortune’s rock (1999)
The last time they met (2001)
Sea glass (2002)
All he ever wanted (2003)
Light on snow (2004)
A wedding in December (2005)
Body surfing (2007)
A Change in Altitude (2009)
Rescue (2010)

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