News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

The Snow Line

by Tessa McWatt - £8.99  Scribe Publications (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781912854479 | ISBN 10: 1912854473

"Tessa McWatt is one of our greatest living writers. The Snow Line, her new novel, is a profound meditation on love, ageing, and what it is to be a woman of mixed racial identity and culture. Profoundly moving and epic in its scope, this book provides us with wisdom and reckoning on today’s world, one that is ecologically fragile and only just coping with a pandemic. Like all mature writers, McWatt’s range of reference is vast and her understanding of humanity plunges us into depths we all long to inhabit. She writes her characters with such intimacy we are thunderstruck by the book’s final pages. I closed this book and shed tears."
(Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch)

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain — but will they see the same thing from the top?
 
Londoner Reema, who left India before she could speak, is searching for a sign that will help her make a life-changing decision. In pensioner Jackson’s suitcase is something he must let go of, but is he strong enough?
 
Together with two unlikely companions, they take a road trip up a mountain deep in the Himalayas, heading for the snow line, where the ice begins. But even standing in the same place, surrounded by magnificent views, they see things differently.
 
As they ascend higher and higher, they must learn to cross the lines that divide them.

(Price & availability last checked: May 2022)

Order online Order by email Enquire about this book

In booklists: Writers by Surname - M, World Fiction - Asia,
In categories: Fiction, World - Asia,