They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels shes spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, its always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land... Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mothers death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sisters wrath. Both a pilgrimage and an investigation into family secrets, Yukis journey is the one she always knew shed have to make, and one of the most charming and haunting in recent fiction.