Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316010677, Paperback)

Already taking its place alongside The Pilots Wife and The Last Time They Met as one of Anita Shreves most widely popular and bestselling novels, LIGHT ON SNOW recounts the aftermath of a startling discovery: a 12-year-old girl and her widowed father find an abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their home. Writing with all the emotional richness that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in this book a tender and surprising story about love and its consequences.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316014281, Mass Market Paperback)

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice.Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 031600071X, Hardcover)

A New York Times Bestseller

The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society to forget an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of her terrible choices; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.