Snow Country: SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his best novel since BIRDSONG THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel' ELIZABETH DAY 'A yearning, wistful, lovelorn novel, intent on exploring the price of being human' SUNDAY TIMES 'Faulks on his best form' TELEGRAPH 1914- Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of experience and deep secrets. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton comes to life. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927- For Lena, life with her mother in a small town has been cosseted and cold. After a few years of schooling, she encounters a young lawyer who spirits her away to Vienna. However, what she imagines to be love soon crumbles, and she leaves the city behind to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933- Having lost many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time. Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another, SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth and the sanctity of hope. In elegant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has produced an epic love story of timeless resonance. 'A magnificent, moving novel' INDEPENDENT 'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A tale of love - lost and found - and the strength of the human spirit' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks's books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

A fine and profoundly intelligent novel, written by an author who balances big ideas with human emotion. Wistful, yearning and wise. -- Elizabeth Day Faulks's most poignant love story yet -- Antony Beevor What we're reading on holiday. * The Times * Sebastian Faulks' latest novel is beautifully written, shot through with a sense of the frailty of love that is at times reminiscent of William Faulkner's The Wild Palms... This is a superb novel * Spectator * A 5* masterpiece that I devoured in a day * New Books Magazine * Beautifully written and compelling * Sunday Express * A yearning, wistful, lovelorn novel, intent on exploring the price of being human. * Sunday Times * Faulks on his best form. * Telegraph * Fascinating . . . impeccably researched . . . At the heart of this rich, dark story, however, is not politics but psychology . . . Faulks's committed fans will be left looking forward to the next instalment of this thought-provoking trilogy. * The Times * A magnificent, moving novel. * Independent * A tale of love - lost and found - and the strength of the human spirit. * Sunday Telegraph *