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Charlotte is young, beautiful and bored. A trip to the Alps seems to be the perfect escape from her dull vicarage life. Once there, she throws herself into a sparkling new world of friendships, freedom and passion. Little does she know that her new life, like the Alps, brings danger too.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I first read this book when I was 9 years old (I started early!) and found it very compelling and totally enjoyable. I am now 16 and have read it several more times, gaining the seal of approval by my mum, who read it in 2 days...and loved it!
The story follows Charlotte, a young girl longing to escape and explore, as she learns about life and lessons in a world where women should not have their own ideas, and having a bastard child is UNTHINKABLE! The charachters are highly lovable and the romance of the book is unique. This is a fantastic book to curl up in bed with, full of love, description and truth.
A heart touching novel that people of all ages will love!
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would say that Snowfall is probably one of the best books I have ever read. And I have read a lot of books. It covers adventure, horses, and the out doors. Many a time have I read the book and felt the same delight, sadness and excitement of the characters over and over again. It made me feel as if I was acctualy part of the drama that is with in the book. I think that if a film could be made on the book and it had the same sort of detail it would be wonderful. I also think it would be good if K.M.Peyton could write a book that covered the gap of the 50 years between the 1890s and the 1940s. A brilliant book. Kate Morris
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
now sitting on my "favorites" shelf
7 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
i grabbed this book, desperate to get at least one thig before i left barnes & noble (sorry amazon!) and was pleasantly surprised by how much i loved it. historical fiction romances are right up my ally, but you must always be careful--there are some bed apples out there. Snowfall is not one of these. I was at first a little confused/put off by the fast pace of the book, but i soon got into the story because of it. it takes place of the course of about 2 years and must move this way. I really got to know the personalities of the characters, and was quite emotional with them. Even in the last chapter or two of the story, i could not tell how it was going to end, and was engaged until the very end. Thanks very much for a great read! i heartily reccomend this book.
p.s. it left me crying! the mark of a great book.
p.s. it left me crying! the mark of a great book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Snowfall, the review to end the others....
26 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
When I first started Snowfall I thought it would be yet another stuffy romance book with too much detail and not enough kick. I was wrong. Can you imagine how astounded I was when I ended up falling in love with this book? And how I was shocked by the other reviews? So let me put this whole war of the reviews to an end.
This book should be a classic. Never before have I seen characters presented in a way where they grow with you. Never have I had the pleasure of almost knowing these characters as Charlotte does. No other book can compare to the way it compells a reader to the fate of everybody. And not once has a book broken my heart.
I think the thing that made this book so absolutely fabulous was the ending. To find something so perfect and absolute, and then to have it ripped from you. Miss Peyton painted it in a way where she didn't have to put any lusty moments into this book, but you could feel the love between Charlotte and Milo, and the difference between her "love" with Casimir.
At the end of the book I think of you heartless if you say you felt nothing. It was tragic. Completely tragic, and based on a true story. How can you critiscize this book's romance when it is so plainly underlying everything else. It flows gently beneath everything and I didn't realize how much I loved the characters until they were ripped apart.
I was utterly depressed, and that's what made this book great. If somebody can render me speechless and disintegrated before mere paper pages, then I recognize that as talent. If somebody can awaken that almost naive and pure passion in me, that is most certainly talent. And if you can't discern that from stuffy and boring then I pity you. You missed a wonderful tale.
One thing I didn't like about the book? The same thing that I adored: the fact that the end wasn't how I wanted it to be. It made it real. Tangible. And my heart broke when they fell and held onto each other. It was the romance I've been yearning for, and yet while that is surfaced it is also real. And beautiful.
This book should be a classic. Never before have I seen characters presented in a way where they grow with you. Never have I had the pleasure of almost knowing these characters as Charlotte does. No other book can compare to the way it compells a reader to the fate of everybody. And not once has a book broken my heart.
I think the thing that made this book so absolutely fabulous was the ending. To find something so perfect and absolute, and then to have it ripped from you. Miss Peyton painted it in a way where she didn't have to put any lusty moments into this book, but you could feel the love between Charlotte and Milo, and the difference between her "love" with Casimir.
At the end of the book I think of you heartless if you say you felt nothing. It was tragic. Completely tragic, and based on a true story. How can you critiscize this book's romance when it is so plainly underlying everything else. It flows gently beneath everything and I didn't realize how much I loved the characters until they were ripped apart.
I was utterly depressed, and that's what made this book great. If somebody can render me speechless and disintegrated before mere paper pages, then I recognize that as talent. If somebody can awaken that almost naive and pure passion in me, that is most certainly talent. And if you can't discern that from stuffy and boring then I pity you. You missed a wonderful tale.
One thing I didn't like about the book? The same thing that I adored: the fact that the end wasn't how I wanted it to be. It made it real. Tangible. And my heart broke when they fell and held onto each other. It was the romance I've been yearning for, and yet while that is surfaced it is also real. And beautiful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Snowfall is a perfect blend of plot and thought.
25 Oct 1998
Format:Hardcover
Charlotte Campion is a girl of seventeen who lives with her elderly grandfather. He wants her to marry the blameless boring curate Hubert Carstairs. Her brother Ben saves her from this when he suggests that she joins him and some Oxford friends on a walking holiday in the Swiss Alps. There she meets Milo Rawnsley, Mar Merchent- Fox and Roland Palmer. Just as she is preparing to go back home to marry Carstairs Milo offers her a job and home at his new house Nettlepot Hall. Here she has the opportunity to understand who she really is.
This is a book focusing on changing, mainly Charlotte maturing but also all the characters finding out about themselves and each other. The only one that doesn't change is Milo. He seems to be frozen in time. The only way he changes is when the people round him alter. He never changes himself.
'Snowfall' is similar to the Pennington books by K. M. Peyton in many ways. Even though 'Snowfall' is set in the Victorian era, in comfortable houses and among wealthy people and the Pennington books begin in a crowded house, an unpleasant secondary modern and frequent visits to the police station. Pennington too learns his own worth. Another Peyton book 'Firehead' also explores change and adaption. 'Prove Yourself a Hero' and 'A Midsummer's Nights Death' involve an element of change in the main character Jonathan Meredith. Peyton involves more ready humour in these two books than 'Snowfall' where she pokes fun at typical love stories. 'Snowfall' combines an enjoyable plot and interesting philosophy in this triumphant book.
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