Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

£7.99

“Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow” is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages, and even made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release, the text remains the best, most engaging of all forms for Peter Hoeg’s thriller.

One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident almost immediately, a child playing gone wrong- but Isaiah’s neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.

The novel itself is superb, it’s wit and subtlety making the tight plotting move along with incredible tenacity, reeling the reader in and scarcely letting go. An extraordinary, poetically sublime achievement.