-Kelly Jane Torrance, Washington Times What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and the unex pected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted b her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equa possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonanc that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfol in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.