Book description
Christmas Eve, 1942, Paris. A boy stands beneath the statue of Liberte
in the Jardin du Luxembourg, awash in a flurry of snowflakes, on the eve
of his sixteenth birthday. Time is running out - the curfew means he
needs to get home, this is a dangerous time to be on the streets. But
then he catches sight of a young girl called Rose, and his fate is
sealed... The Snow Globe is a beautiful Christmas short story to
complement the wonderful novel The Sweetness of Forgetting, coming from
Quercus in March 2013. Christmas Eve, 1942, Paris. A boy stands
beneath the statue of Liberte in the Jardin du Luxembourg, awash in a
flurry of snowflakes, on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. Time is
running out - the curfew means he needs to get home, this is a dangerous
time to be on the streets. But then he catches sight of a young girl
called Rose, and his fate is sealed... The Snow Globe is a beautiful
Christmas short story to complement the wonderful novel The Sweetness of
Forgetting, coming from Quercus in March 2013.
