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|summary=Magical and beautiful, this re-telling of an old Russian fairytale about a snow child is set in 1920s Alaska and is full of charm and human warmth. A warming winter tale for the child within us all.

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The heart of Alaskan native, Eowyn Ivey's debut novel is a re-telling of the Russian fairy tale ''Snegurochka'' or ''The Snow Child''. Set here in Alaska in the 1920s, Jack and Mabel have moved from the East coast to start a new life, apart from anything to help Mabel get over the grief of having lost her only child in childbirth. Life in Alaska is tough and Jack struggles to farm his new homestead. Then in the first snowfall of the season, a playful snowball fight leads to the couple building a snowman, or more accurately a snowgirl. The next morning the snowgirl has vanished along with the mittens and scarf that adorned her and Jack sees a ghostly figure, possibly a young girl, running in the woods. Can they have created a snow child? Is this their longed for daughter?