LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
Winner of the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Award Longlist 2016.
One of our Books of the Year 2015.
November 2015 Debut of the Month.
The most impressive thing about this extraordinary book is its atmosphere. You can feel the cold and the desperation of the people trying to live through the ‘wolf winter’, a term used to describe the coldest of winters. We follow a family of new settlers. This is Swedish Lapland in 1717 where the church has a grip on the community but the Lapps still believe in the ancient spirits. When a body is found folk are quick to blame a bear for his death but the new settlers see signs of a knife wound, not a claw. This is very special, a ghostly feel of menace lies just beneath the surface in a long, complicated and gripping tale. Awesome. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
HWA Chair judge Andrew Taylor said: "The judges were unanimously impressed by Wolf Winter. Not only is it astonishingly accomplished for a first novel, but it plunges the reader into Swedish Lapland 300 years ago and plays havoc with your emotions. Dark, powerful and beautifully written, it's a worthy winner of the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown.
Sarah Broadhurst
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Wolf Winter Synopsis
A brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic Noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves. There are six homesteads on Blackasen Mountain. A day's journey away lies the empty town. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the Church summons her people through the snows. Then, even the oldest enemies will gather. But now it is summer, and new settlers are come. It is their two young daughters who find the dead man, not half an hour's walk from their cottage. The father is away. And whether stubborn, or stupid, or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest. To the wife who is not concerned when her husband does not come home for three days; to the man who laughs when he hears his brother is dead; to the priest who doesn't care; she asks and asks her questions, digging at the secrets of the mountain. They say a wolf made those wounds. But what wild animal cuts a body so clean?
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781444789553 |
| Publication date: |
15th December 2015 |
| Author: |
Cecilia Ekback |
| Publisher: |
Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
408 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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Press Reviews
Cecilia Ekback Press Reviews
'Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended' -- Lee Child, No1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers
'The most brilliantly, dark, eerie, intriguing tale I've ever read. Think The Killing and then square it'. -- Ruby Wax
'Wolf Winter is a beautiful novel, full of wisdom and poetry. Cecilia Ekback writes dark, compelling prose steeped in a powerful sense of place. Spellbinding.' -- Saskia Sarginson, bestselling author of The Twins
'A terrific debut in the vein of Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES' The Bookseller
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About Cecilia Ekback
Cecilia Ekback was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work for a multinational took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK. In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, 'returning home' to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Wolf Winter is her first novel and she is at work on her second.
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