



Black Woods, Blue Sky
A magical story of love and survival from the Sunday Times best selling author of The Snow Child
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
Where there is wonder, there is love - an unforgettable story of the beauty and savagery of the Alaskan wilderness, from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child.
'I read with my heart in my mouth, filled with wonder' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
'An enthralling novel about the endurance of love, the power of forgiveness and the savage, irresistible allure of wild places' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Birdie's keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It's a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by.
And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie's fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. When Arthur asks Birdie and Emaleen to leave the lodge and make a home, just the three of them, in his off-grid cabin, Birdie's answer, in a heartbeat, is yes.
Out in the wilderness Birdie's days are harsher and richer than she ever imagined possible. Here she will feel truly at one with nature. Here she, and Emaleen, will learn the whole, fearful truth about Arthur.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The fairytale Beauty and the Beast is reimagined in this beautiful, haunting novel. Young single mother Birdie is working as a server at a lodge in the Alaskan mountains, but she yearns for a life less constrained. When she meets Arthur, a recluse who lives in a remote cabin in the vast, dark woods, she and her daughter Emaleen move in with him. In time, however, they discover he’s more dangerous and mysterious than Birdie could ever have imagined. Eowyn Ivey’s third novel, Black Woods, Blue Sky is an evocative exploration of the tension between the desire for a wild life and the need to be part of a society. She brings her home state of Alaska, with its grandeur and terror, to dazzlingly vivid life, but it’s the characters, particularly the innocent Emaleen, who will stay with you long after you finish reading.