May 10, 2012
Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child: A Fairy Tale All Grown Up
At the heart of every fairy tale lives a moral, a timeless lesson about life or love. But alas, at some point as we grow up, fairy tales lose their sparkle. Thankfully, there are writers like Eowyn Ivey, whose debut novel, The Snow Child, is a tale so subtly perfect, so utterly enchanting – and so full of grown-up magic.
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