Snow Shadow

By Andre Norton

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449239632
• ISBN13: 9780449239636
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great for Jane Austen Fans!!

This is a great mystery book but has the added appeal to Jane Austen fans of the central characters being a family with the father obsessed with collecting Jane Austen memorabilia. One family home is named Northanger Abbey after the Jane Austen novel of the same name.

A Comfort Read

Best just to get the worst (or maybe the best depending on your viewpoint) out of the way. This book by Norton is a romantic suspense first published in 1979, but it reads like it was written a decade before. If you have a low tolerance for 20ish heroines who talk and act like they are 40ish and for a plot driven by a Big Misunderstanding then this probably is not the book for you. If, however, you feel a bit nostalgic for a sexless, serial killerless, story then you might well enjoy this foray into the Austen family dirty linen.Not the Jane Austin family but the Austens of Maryland who have enough skeletons to populate all of the closets in their ugly mid Victorian home.Erica Jansen, the heroine, was raised by an elderly aunt who taught her to distrust her own feelings. Erica's one attempt at freedom resulted in a humiliating incident that sent her running back to Vermont. Now, five years later, her aunt dead, Erica, a fledgling author, is again in the town where the relationship that ended in her humiliation began. She runs into a fellow author and by dint of an invitation is drawn into the tangled affairs of the Austen family and their hangers on.Told in first person the books plays out pretty much as you might expect but it's not badly written-- and given a cold, some hot tea and a warm fire, it is a perfectly pleasant comfort read.