A Cold Season
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| Author | Alison Littlewood |
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| Language | English |
| Genres | Fantasy, horror |
| Publisher | Jo Fletcher Books |
Publication date | January 2012 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78087-135-6 |
| Followed by | A Cold Silence |
A Cold Season is a fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood. It is her debut novel and was first published in the United Kingdom in January 2012 by Jo Fletcher Books. It is about a young widow who takes her son to Darnshaw, the village of her birth after her husband went missing in action in Afghanistan; but the village has become sinister and foreboding, and snow storms prevent them from leaving.
A Cold Season was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2012.[1] Littlewood wrote a sequel, A Cold Silence, which was published in 2015.
Cass is a young widow whose husband went missing in action in Afghanistan. She takes her son, Ben to Darnshaw, a village she grew up in. But Darnshaw is not as she remembers it, and Ben makes it clear he does not want to be there. Then Ben starts to make friends with some of the locals, and his behaviour changes, becoming more and more menacing and violent. Cass makes sinister discoveries about the village and its inhabitants, and wants to leave, but Ben refuses. She tries to leave on her own but cannot because the village has been cut off from the outside world by snow storms.
