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Synopsis
Cold Country is a sparkling debut novel telling the story of two young women who are thrown back together to survive an Alaskan winter and the wreckage of a friendship. Before Fleur's desperate phone call, Sandra was all set to move south to escape her family, her ex-boyfriend and the wet Seattle weather. But now Fleur has broken her arm and needs a ride home immediately - no questions asked. Tricked into agreeing, Sandra reluctantly sets out on the trip. Fleur is sullen and withdrawn, not like her breezy old self at all. Perhaps the answer to her odd behaviour will come from her family in Fairbanks. But from Fleur's sly brother Ryan, to her watchful sister Miriam, the Cold Country seems to have bred a family of misfits, full of guilt and guilty secrets just waiting to be revealed. As the Fairbanks winter closes in around them all, Sandra discovers that her journey has only just begun.
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Review
'... the portrait of a family not so much dysfunctional as efficiently toxic has an awful plausibility.' -- Time Out
About the Author
Gerri Brightwell was brought up in Devon by her English father and French mother but has lived in Spain, Thailand, Canada and the United States. She has worked as a cleaner, ice-cream seller, sandwich-maker, pottery sponger, nanny and, most recently, a teacher of English and writing. She now lives in Minneapolis with her husband and young son, and is writing a dissertation on servants in Victorian literature.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0715632078
- ISBN 13 9780715632079
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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