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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the...

Birdie's keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover sometimes on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter Emaleen to work while she waits tables but it's a tough town to be a single mother, and she needs to get by. Maybe the shine is starting to wear off life at Wolverine Lodge. Maybe Birdie's ready for a fresh start. And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie's fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. 

Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth...

An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to...

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaska wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longer contain her grief for the baby she lost many years before. The evening the first snow falls, their mood unaccountably changes.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? “No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.”—Geraldine Brooks “You will find...

Eowyn’s debut novel, The Snow Child, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and became an instant modern classic. For her latest novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn stays close to home to tell the tale of Lieutenant Colonol Forrester, a man who accepts a mission to navigate Alaska’s Wolverine River. She joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios.

Alaska in den 1920er Jahren: Hier leben Mabel und Jack als einfache Farmer in der einsamen Wildnis. Die Enttäuschung über ihre Kinderlosigkeit und der harte Überlebenskampf in der unwirtlichen Umgebung drohen die beiden, die sich eigentlich innig lieben, zu entzweien. Als aber der erste Schnee kommt, entdecken sie ein elfengleiches, blondes Kind, das von einem Fuchs begleitet wird. Zuerst glauben sie, dass ihre Sinne ihnen einen Streich spielen.