
The year is 1883 The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop We follow the priest Skugga-Baldur on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B Friethriksson & his charge Abba who suffers from Down's syndrome & who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster Then to a shipwreck off the Icelandic coast in the spring of 1868 The fates of Friethrik Abba & Baldur are intrinsically bound & unravelled in this spellbinding book that is part thriller part fairy tale