Red Snow by Will Dean, Book Review
Ad link to buy I love snow globes, so it’s not surprising that I was completely taken with the setting of Red Snow, Gavrik, an isolated small town during a very cold winter in the north of Sweden. You can tell the author is English as he’s so enthralled with the extreme cold and the snow, the struggle with dry skin, driving challenges, and the many thermal layers you have to keep putting on and taking off. Those of us who have lived in northern climes, are more blasé about a bit of frostbite and cars that need jump-starting. It’s therefore somewhat idiosyncratic to experience the foreigner’s excitement with the extreme cold expressed by the main protagonist, Tuva Moodyson, a young Swedish female journalist who writes for the local paper, combining serious investigative journalism with ice hockey reports and ‘local man falls off ladder’ stories. You might imagine Gavrik, a town of 9,000 taciturn Swedes, to be monochrome in terms of character development, but Will Dean ha...