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    Light on Snow
    Audiobook6 hours

    Light on Snow

    Written by Anita Shreve

    Narrated by Alyson Silverman

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption.
    Writing with all the emotional richness that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateApr 1, 2005
    ISBN9781594831447
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    Light on Snow
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    Anita Shreve

    Anita Shreve was a high school teacher and a freelance magazine journalist before writing fiction full time. She was the author of over fifteen novels as well as the international bestseller The Pilot’s Wife, and The Weight of the Water, a finalist for the Orange Prize. Shreve taught writing at Amherst College and lived in Massachusetts.

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    Reviews for Light on Snow

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    • 4/5
      Twin tragedies, one resulting in deaths and one in a rescue, bookend this fast-paced story by the beloved Shreve, author of the fantastic Weight of Water, who died recently. Daughter Nicky and father Robert have retreated to rural New Hampshire upon the sudden collapse of their family. While snowshoeing, they discover a newborn wrapped in a sleeping bag, and the crisis turns their lives inside out once again. The novel is most believably told by Nicky, in her perfect pre-adolescent strong voice.
    • 5/5
      This book had been sitting on my bookshelves for years. I must have purchased it at a book sale or yard sale because someone's name is on the front page. I absolutely loved it. Such simple prose but what insight we get into the thoughts and feelings of Nikki, her father, Charlotte, and even the police chief. I think the fact that there were so few characters helped with the stark simplicity of the story and since it is told from the perspective of the little girl Nikki, we were able to fully understand this sensitive child's thoughts and her interaction with her father and also with Charlotte was wonderful. I absolutely loved it, and I do think it would be a great movie. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Good family book.
    • 3/5
      Quick read...sweet story of how we define family.
    • 3/5
      Liked the family, liked the scenery, liked the feeling throughout. Did not feel it was sad at all, unlike most people here, apparently, well, at least in the latest few reviews.
    • 3/5
      This book was a nice fast read. Sad plot but good. Its took by a 12 year old girl who, she and her father find a new born baby left in a pile of snow in the woods to die. the whole story is about the girl and her father and the problems they face when the mother of the baby shows up at there door step.You later find out that the 12 year olds mother and 1 year old baby sister die in a auto accident before all this happened and see how the father isolates them to a new state away from everyone with no tv, radio, etc. i would have given it more stars but the whole book just deals with what happens in 1 week. it got old reading about the same thing over and over again.
    • 5/5
      I just finished reading Light on Snow by Anita Shreve. Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her widowed father find an abandoned baby in the woods on a snowy winter's night in New Hampshire. This leads Nicky to question what makes a family, especially when an unexpected visitor - a young woman who's haunted by her own terrible choices - shows up at the Dillons door. The Dillons and their guests face many emotional decisions each of which could lead to heartbreak or redemption. I really liked this story; it's easy reading and a riveting storyline. I give it an A+!
    • 3/5
      A somehow compelling narrative; I felt very close to the girl telling the story. Very little action, but a warm enjoyable quick read.
    • 2/5
      Not my favourite Anita Shreve book.Nothing much happens. Read the reviews and you have read the book.
    • 2/5
      Written through the eyes of a 12-year-old (she is frequently unbelievably perceptive for her age) this is a sweet story about a father and daughter unable to recover after the loss of half their family. The father we are told is not even trying to recover. What they find on a walk in the snow becomes a two-way miracle that leads to a sort-of happy ending. A quick, okay read, not memorable.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book written in the first person from the perspective of a pre-teen who, with her father, finds a baby in the snow. Sweetly written.
    • 5/5
      12 yr old Nicky was taking a walk in the forest with her father when they heard the cry that would change their lives. The cry of a baby abandoned in the snow. Follow the events which cause the shadows and questions that laid still and quiet since the death of Nicky's mom and little sister surface, as does the mother of the abandoned child. Discover the choices which lead each person to be where they are and the little details which enable them to grow to be who they destined to become.I found this book to be completely engrossing and could not put it down until the last page was turned. I could feel the emotions emanating from the characters. I was impressed with the vividness in which Anita Shreve was able to bring them to life. I found myself on a wild emotional roller coaster ride as I turned the pages. A must read.
    • 3/5
      Okay. Readable. Very movie-of-the-week-ish.
    • 3/5

      I've found some of Anita Shreve's books to be dense and involved reads but this one was exceptionally light. The story concerns the emotional fall out after a newborn baby is found wrapped in a sleeping bag in the snow. The narrator is Nicky, the 12 year old who found the baby along with her dad while walking in the woods. It's mentioned that she's looking back on the events from the age of 30, but this doesn't really make much sense as apart from talking about things that would have embarrassed a 12 year old there's nothing added by this device and we don't find out anything that happened to the cast of characters after the week of the story.

      Not my favourite of Shreve's books.

    • 4/5
      A baby is found in a snow-filed woods in New Hampshire by a man and his 12 year old daughter. A young woman shows up at their home later, and then each of them face decisions that will change their futures forever. Shreve's writing is spare, neat and crisp, yet the principal characters are fully formed, and their lives worth caring about. This is a book that is engrossing and will keep you thinking long after you have laid it down. A must read than will linger in your mind for days.
    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Simply written but deeply felt, it's a story about a wounded family being dragged from their isolation by another tragedy.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The characters were all someone I would like to get to know. It was interesting to watch the family dynamics after the arrival of the baby and then Charlotte. The father is so dependent on Nicky in the beginning, but then breaks out of his comfort zone to save the abandoned child. It reassured my belief in "right place, right time".
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book. Nicky sure has lots of responsibilities to be a twelve year old girl. She is also a big support for her sad, depressed father. I wish that the Dillon's could have kept the baby girl, but that did not happen. I felt sorry for Charlotte. I wish she would have been able to live with the Dillon's and everyone would live happily ever after. I think that it still ended pretty good anyway.
    • 4/5
      Anita Shreve is one of those authors that makes me shiver. Partly with anticipation (a new title of hers is always exciting), and partly from fear. She touches on sensitive topics, and more than once I have put one of her books down for months, because I thought I wasn't strong enough to handle that particular topic at that time. But this power she has, is a real strength. I mean, how can she affect me more closely, more realistically, and more thoroughly than watching the news? Her characters are always real and compelling, and there are always more sides to the story than you thought at first. She leaves you thinking about what else might be going on behind the scenes.Light on Snow is lighter than some other offerings, but as a result, there was nothing stopping me from diving in fully, and reading this book until it was done. And then re-reading some of the bits to make sure I ate up the whole thing. I loved all of the characters, (that's rare; usually there's someone that you can't stand in a book; but this one was full of friends). This would be a good book in which to become familiar with Anita Shreve. Very enjoyable, if a little lighter than others (if finding a baby; abandoned to die, in the snow, can be called "lighter" than other topics).
    • 4/5
      Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father, out for an afternoon hike in the snow, happened upon a crying newborn wrapped in a sleeping bag and left to die alone in the cold. Their rescue of this helpless infant is the catalyst for helping Nicky (and her father) come to terms with the sudden and tragic loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier near Christmastime.Nicky and her father have grieved separately, but the quest to answer questions about this baby and the parents who abandoned it bring them closer together. Engaging and entertaining characters with a believable storyline. Recommended.
    • 5/5
      One of the few books I've read more than once. I really liked this book. I thought the characters were developed well, and though I wanted a different ending, I thought her ending was appropriate for the situation.
    • 3/5
      A nice fast-moving interesting story. Not as deep or well-plotted as some of her books, but better than Sea Glass. From the point of view of a 12 year old girl whose mother and little sister were killed.
    • 4/5
      Anita Shreve weaves a tale of suspense through the eyes of an 11 year old girl who finds an abandoned baby in the snow. Her father, recovering from a haunted past, takes in a young woman who develops a friendship with the girl. However, the secrets that are revealed threaten to blow this father and daughter forever apart.
    • 4/5
      A good quick read which makes you think about what comprises a family.
    • 4/5
      I loved this story. It really resonates.
    • 3/5
      not one of my favorite books by Shreve but still a page turner.
    • 3/5
      This was a quick read but definitely not the most thought-provoking or heartfelt I've ever read.It is about one family's struggle to overcome a tragic past and their need to move forward into a healed future. Their need - whether they know it or not - for redemption.Some points to consider while reading this book are:What IS a family? What makes up a family? What about the "precise intersections" that occur in our lives - are they truly 'random'?I would've given this book a higher rating had it not been for the ending. I felt that the ending was weak and found that the book didn't 'sit well' with me because of it. There were several plausible endings from what I could figure, none of which the author chose.A fairly good read that proved to be disappointing in the end.
    • 1/5
      Father and daughter find an abandon new born in the snow in the woods. They find a lot more about themselves too. Book could have been good but written at the 3rd grade level.
    • 4/5
      A beautiful story set in Central New Hampshire. After the death of her mother and baby sister, the narrator moves from New York to a small New Hampshire town. After having saved a baby abandonned in the woods to die, the story follows the aftermath and the visit of a mysterious young woman.
    • 4/5
      Twelve-year-old Nicky and her father discover an abandoned baby in the woods outside their New Hampshire home. This novel deals with their loss of half their family to an accident, and also with the journey of the infant's mother who enters into their lives.Shreve is a competent writer, but her characters never quite come to life, and their interactions seem forced. Light on Snow has an interesting premise, and she's plotted it decently, but she just doesn't exhibit the skill (or editing?) to make this the classic it has the potential to be.