Land of Snow and Ashes

A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sámi people

'Reveals so much more about a war we thought we knew that it feels like a potted epic'

Guardian

This is a story of silenced histories, of dark secrets in a land of midnight sun.

Finnish Lapland, 1947: Inkeri arrives in remote Enontekiö on a journalistic assignment, but her real motivation is more personal - this is where her husband was last seen before he disappeared during the war.

As her probing questions meet with silence and hostility, Inkeri begins to investigate the fault-lines in this small community. Her burgeoning friendship with a young Sámi girl helps her piece together why the town does not want to dwell on the past, as traces of disturbing crimes emerge from the pristine landscape of snow and ice.