Fortunately the strength of the story takes over and does the work for you. All the men sounded the same, imperious and hard, and the women were much the same. The baby voices she gave to the children, and even an adult was irritating. I thought her reading was one dimensional, flat and dull. Never saying too much, but always enough.Also the gritty unsentimentality of the characters.Ī murder is at the centre of this novel, but far more interesting is reading about the survival techniques of rural settlers through the winter in very rural Sweden.The magic and mystery that isolation brings, and the relationships of these people to the church.ĭid Jenny Funnell do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

The time and the setting, Swedish Lapland, 1717.Mostly I enjoyed the writing style. What did you like most about Wolf Winter? But what wild animal cuts a body so clean? To the wife who is not concerned when her husband does not come home for three days to the man who laughs when he hears his brother is dead to the priest who doesn't care, she asks and asks her questions, digging at the secrets of the mountain. And whether stubborn or stupid or scared for her girls, the mother will not let it rest. It is their two young daughters who find the dead man not half an hour's walk from their cottage. Ekback was born in the far north of Sweden, which is where she sets Wolf Winter, on the bleak and isolated Blackasen Mountain. Then even the oldest enemies will gather.īut now it is summer, and new settlers are come. 29.99 Wolf Winter is a mesmerising debut novel by Swedish-born, American-based author Cecilia Ekback. /rebates/2f97816028629442fWolf-Winter-Ekb25C325A4ck-Cecilia-160286294X2fplp&. It comes to life just once, in winter, when the church summons her people through the snows. A day's journey away lies the empty town. There are six homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain. A brilliantly written and gripping historical Nordic noir thriller with all the intrigue and atmosphere of Burial Rites, the pent-up passion of The Piano, and the suspense of The Tenderness of Wolves.

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck