In this powerful series of short stories Helen Dunmore reveals a harsh, serious world of endless winters and midnight sun. In Short days, Long Nights a woman wakes to find a man in her bed and tries to piece together the jigsaw of the night before. But is he dead or just sleeping? In Girls on Ice two fashion students walk on the frozen sea until they are caught in a snowstorm, out of sight of land. Set as far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol and upstate New York, the worlds of these stories come alive to the touch. Characters, themes and nuances resound from story to story forming unexpected connections and delightful surprises.
