It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they would build a new home in the wilderness and do it as partners, out from under the shadow of cultivated orchards and expectant generations. In the winter, when it is freezing cold outdoors, but (hopefully) nice and warm inside, when you're curled up on the sofa with a cup of something warm to drink and you're thinking all I need now is a good book to read , this is it. The Snow Child is one of those books that should not be read in the sun during a warm, autumn day (like I did), but in the darkest, coldest days of winter, with freezing temperatures and huge snowdrifts outside. Jack and Mabel have left their former lives behind and moved to the Alaskan wilderness, hoping to create a new home for themselves, live off the land and grow old together. But living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere proves to be harder than they expect. In the freezi...