Shelter - Tapa blanda

'Yearning and beautifully articulate work...intensely realised in a combination of family saga, local superstition and love for the blue summers and deep winters of this remote region.'
Catherine Taylor, Guardian

Maggie's father is 'Mr Safety'. He has taught his daughter how to survive, how to find and make a shelter in all weathers, in any conditions. But when an accident at work goes fatally wrong, Maggie's mother struggles to look after her two daughters alone. Wild, imaginative and unpredictable, she billets the two girls with a family, promising to return once the summer is over. But the summer turns to winter, which rolls round again and again, and soon the two sisters realise that they can rely on no one but themselves - but what kind of shelter can two young girls make for themselves?

'Stunning . . . gripping coming-of-age-early story'
Erikka Askeland, The Scotsman

'A heart-breaking novel about growing up, and about the difficulty of truly knowing our parents' Psychologies