FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 In the winter of 1954 in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands when Sonja Buloh was three years old & her father was drinking too much her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return Thirty-five years later Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present changing forever his living death & her ordered life