Shelter

A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story from Canada's 'New Face of Fiction', Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking Canadian landscape.

Set forty years ago in Northern Canada SHELTER is the touching story of two girls, aged twelve and fourteen. Their mother was imaginative and wild, their father, 'Mr Safety', a logger who knew the ways of the woods and tought his youngest how to survive, how to find and make a shelter in all weathers, in any conditions. But when he is killed in an accident and their mother disappears . . . what kind of shelter can two young girls make then?

Both fascinating and heart-warming, it's reminiscent of some of the great sister stories: HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson and THE BEHAVIOUR OF MOTHS by Poppy Adams.