Dramatic novel, by the author of 'Death of a River Guide'. Sonja's mother walks into a blizzard in the Tasmanian wilderness when Sonja is three years old. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and is almost overwhelmed by the shadows of her past. The author's other publications include 'A Terrible Beauty' and 'Parish-Fed Bastards: A history of the politics of the unemployed in Britain'.