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Discuss art, life, culture and creativity at the monthly Members Book Club. The titles on the reading list for January to May 2024 connect to ideas in the exhibition Fairy Tales.

The Snow Child (2012) by Eowyn Ivey

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, especially for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart – and in a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child has vanished, but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

January – May 2024 reading list

• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2018) by Holly Ringland
• The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) by Angela Carter
• Gingerbread (2019) by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) by Katherine Arden
• The Snow Child (2012) by Eowyn Ivey

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