The Boy Made of Snow, Chloe Mayer
The Boy Made of Snow, Chloe Mayer
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The Boy Made of Snow

Author: Chloe Mayer

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/02/2017

Synopsis

In a sleepy English village in 1944, Annabel and her son Daniel live in the shadow of war. With her husband away, Annabel withdraws ever deeper into long-ago memories of happier times.

When Mother and son befriend Hans, a German PoW consigned to a nearby farm, their lives are suddenly filled with thrilling secrets.

To Annabel, Hans is an awakening from the darkness that has engulfed her since Daniel's birth. To her son, a solitary boy caught up in the magical world of fairy tales, he is perhaps a prince in disguise or a mythical woodchopper. But Hans has plans of his own and will soon set them into motion with chilling consequences.

Read by Joe Jameson

(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

About Chloe Mayer

Chloë Mayer is a journalist, whose work has been shortlisted for several awards, including newcomer of the year and reporter of the year. She has lived and worked in Tokyo and Los Angeles, and now lives in east London, not far from where she grew up. THE BOY MADE OF SNOW is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlotte

"It must have been my mother who planted my seed in me. She was made of ice. And I was made of her. If she was the snow queen, then I was her boy made of snow." Hm, this was certainly not what I was expecting when I went into this book. From the cover and the title, I was expecting a cute story, gr......more

Goodreads review by Eric

The Boy Made of Snow by Chloe Mayer is about a young boy and his lonely and depressed mother that befriend a German prisoner of war during the end of War World II, while the boy's father is away fighting the war. The young boy and his mother live in a small English village where German POWs thought......more

Goodreads review by Karen

If you adore fairy tales then you need this book in your life! And just like fairy tales this is a book with a very dark side that only adds to the impact it has on you when you read it, and I loved every minute spent with these characters in the remote Kent setting. Told from 2 points of view - a mo......more

Goodreads review by Anne

2017 has been a spectacular year for debut novels, as I look back over the year, so many wonderful debuts stand out for me. Chloe Mayer is certainly one to add to that list. The Boy Made of Snow is exquisitely imagined, beautifully written and I was completely enthralled by it. This author has taken......more

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A testament to the power of stories, THE BOY MADE OF SNOW had me compulsively turning the pages to find out the fate of Daniel and his mother. A haunting and thrilling read. I absolutely loved it

An evocative and stunning debut from an exciting new writer

Original and unsettling - and just a little bit heartbreaking

THE BOY MADE OF SNOW is an evocative and haunting story with moments of heart-breaking poignancy. This dark and compelling tale, of wartime austerity and one boy's vivid imagination and its devastating consequences, is an assured and beautifully written debut

Heartbreaking, chilling and beautifully written, THE BOY MADE OF SNOW will stay with me for a very long time

There is much to admire in this ambitious debut, primarily Mayer's handling of Annabel's unsettling descent into a slothful haze THE TIMES

Calling upon classic fairytales - in their original, not Disney-fied versions - this is a beautiful and evocative debut STYLIST

The novel wins through on both the evocation of the period and the setting, brilliantly capturing the isolation of mother and son, making the awful inevitability of what follows extra affecting DAILY MAIL

In 1944, a young boy obsessed with fairy tales, and his troubled mother, befriend a German POW - with heartbreaking results. Your jaw will drop at the dramatic events GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

When a young mother falls for a German POW, she sets off a train of events that will shatter lives. The period and her son's imaginery world makes this special WOMAN & HOME

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