Where Snow Angels Go: From the author of the number one bestseller Hamnet

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There’s a lot less you have to explain. If I go into Will’s study and he says: “I’m working. I can’t talk”, I don’t take offence. Plus, we are always each other’s first readers. He said about one of my books: “Well, it’s not bad, you have to rewrite half of it.” That was a bit of a blow. He was right – that was annoying. The book was beautifully written and I adored the heartfelt story of a little girl trying to see her snow angel again after she finds out that he is there to protect her. It is also about the selflessness of the little girl as she worries about people who have never made a snow angel before not having a guardian watching over them.

A few days before releasing “Snow Angel”, Reneé shared this statement on her social media platforms: Resources/Activities: Winter is here, a time of adventure for children. After the next snow, go outside with your children and make your own snow angels. Take pictures of your snow angels. You may even want to draw pictures.bár a könyv a gyerekek kimondatlan félelmeiről szól, megnyugtató válaszokat is ad ezekre. A bűbájos rajzokkal és hangulatos szöveggel pedig tökéletes téli olvasmány: megeleveníti a havat. S ha van rá alkalom, olvasása után biztos mindenki örömmel készíti el a saját hóangyalát. This is a heart-warming and magical book that made me smile throughout. Perfect for these winter months and I can see a lot of children, once the snow has arrived, rushing to make their own snow angels. One night, a young girl named Sylvie awakens to find a glimmering presence with wings in her room. The snow angel she had made the previous winter has returned. Every snow angel made by someone becomes their real angel who will look after and protect their creator. He has arrived in response to a need he has sensed in her, but he is also surprised by her ability to see him as it violates all the rules. Realizing that she is suffering from a fever, the angel awakens the mother, disappearing before she can see him. Sylvie’s illness lingers for months, but in those months she never forgets that the snow angel was there, and tries to summon his return. Where Snow Angels Go is the first book for children written by award-winning Irish-born author, Maggie O’Farrell. One summer night, Sylvie gets a visit from a novice snow angel: A fitting farewell, still funny, acute, and positive in its view of human nature even in its 37th episode.

Van valami mágikus a hóban, ezt minden gyerek tudja és ezt tökéletesen megidézi a történet. Igazi klasszikus meséket idéző olvasmány ez. Hihetetlenül jó hangulata van, kicsit baljós, úgyhogy van benne izgalom is. S a mesét tökéletesen egészítik ki Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini varázslatos rajzai. A Hóangyal tényleg szinte kékesen csillog, Sylvie alakjából, amikor megpróbálja őt megidézni sugárzik az életigenlés. Igazi belevaló kislány, okos és találékony ugyanakkor oltalmazó is.In your memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am , you talk about your childhood stammer. Do you get nervous speaking in public?

This is such a lovely story and a really special one to read during the winter time. Children will love the tale of the snow angel and may be inspired to create their own snow angels if they are near any snow. I really love how the whole guardian/snow angel idea has been thought out and it’s a story I think many families will enjoy reading again and again. In her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, Maggie O’Farrell writes about the close encounters with death that have defined her life, including a period spent in hospital as a child, gravely ill with encephalitis. "Nearly losing my life at the age of eight made me sanguine – perhaps to a fault – about death," she explains. "I knew it would happen, at some point, and the idea didn’t scare me; its proximity felt instead almost familiar." I was very like Sophie [in the book], a child who liked to take risks and the book does have elements of my childhood in it. Most obviously, she has a long illness [at the age of eight, O’Farrell missed a year’s school with encephalitis]. There are also elements of all three of my children woven in it. In all fiction there are bits you make up and bits you borrow from your own life and the lives of those around you. The song touches on several topics- substance abuse, self doubt, heartbreak, loneliness, trauma, and more. The songs lyricism includes several euphemisms for cocaine use. Snow, burning nose tips that are hot and cold, explicit descriptions of addiction, and “making angels in the snow” , as well as referring to the extremely traumatic event that she wrote about on her social media platforms. It’s been quite a year for you - Hamnet winning the Women’s prize and being named Waterstones’ book of the year…This is such a fun and magical story about angels and what happens to the ones you create in the snow. Sylvie wakes up one might to find someone in her room. The someone isn’t quite sure what they are supposed to do but Sylvie spots that it’s an angel standing in her room. Sylvie soon finds out that this angel is the same one she made out of snow one day, but he’s here for an important reason, because Sylvie isn’t well and the snow angel has come to save her. It’s not my natural environment. I had a terrible stammer through my childhood and adolescence and I still don’t feel very confident verbally. I’ve recently discovered Donal Ryan. I read one book and was so excited when I looked him up and realised he’d written all these other novels. So now I’m reading my way through them. They remind me of early Edna O’Brien, but they’re still very much about modern Ireland today.

It’s an interesting subject because it’s a painful subject. Losing a child is one of the most visceral fears for parents, isn’t it? I’ve always been really interested in Hamnet and why he’s so overlooked and forgotten by history.

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Eventually, it is revealed that he is the snow angel that Sylvie made last winter, and he’s there to save her. Sylvie is sure she doesn’t need saving. Have you ever woken up suddenly, in the middle of the night, without knowing why? Best-selling and award-winning master storyteller Maggie O’Farrell weaves an extraordinary and compelling modern fairy tale about the bravery of a little girl and the miracle of a snowy day.