'Unconventional, highly readable, often very funny and strangely touching . it's the kind of book you can't stop reading but don't want to finish.' Sue Gaisford, Financial Times The new novel from Mick Jackson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales 'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it's always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land.' Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death.

Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath.