Snow In Summer

The little seaside village of Sponkannis lies so quietly upon a protected spot on our Atlantic coast that it makes no more stir in the world than would a pebble which, held between one's finger and thumb, should be dipped below the surface of a millpond and then dropped.

The Patient

A little boy — confined to his hospital room. Surely, a hospital is a place of healing, not a setting for a sinister story. But as the expertly paced plot unfolds, we come to understand who this boy truly is, and what's happening to the world around him.