Snowfall

by K.M. Peyton

Book Overview

In a finely written novel of adventure and romance, K. M. Peyton presents an engaging cast of characters who choose not to be bound by the conventions of their time. As the small group of friends... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395895987
• ISBN13: 9780395895986
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Snowfall, the review to end the others....

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.

True Drama

This book is one of my all time favorites. It starts out seeming like an ordinary fairy tale, but since that is the kinda stuff I like to read it wasn't a big deal. I usually read a book in 4-7 days depending if I really liked it, this book I read in 2. It will make you laugh and cry. Plus it has a really suprise ending, u MUST, HAVE TO, ABSOLUTELY, read this book please !!!!!!!!!!

A Romantic Victorian Novel for Young Adults

I really liked this book, I know it wasn't the most realistic book. Sometimes I just wanted to YELL at the characters! But it was a very fast and interesting read. I LOVED IT. I read it twice. If you like YA romance you will love it too. Its hard to talk a whole lot about it without giving the plot away, but if you like romance, try this book. Another good book--The Raging Quiet.

Snowfall is a perfect blend of plot and thought.

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.