Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

£7.99

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