"From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history. b> n the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Some thirty-five years later, when Sonja visits Tasmania and her drunkard father, the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present changing forever his living death and her ordered life."