SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel' ELIZABETH DAY'A yearning, wistful, lovelorn novel, intent on exploring the price of being human' Sunday Times 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of experience and deep secrets. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton comes to life. Until his country declares war on hers.

1927: For Lena, life with her mother in a small town has been cosseted and cold. After a few years of schooling, she encounters a young lawyer who spirits her away to Vienna. However, what she imagines to be love soon crumbles, and she leaves the city behind to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.

1933: Having lost many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time. Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another, SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth and the sanctity of hope.

In elegant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has produced an epic love story of timeless resonance. 'Faulks on his best form' Telegraph'Fascinating . .

. impeccably researched . .

. At the heart of this rich, dark story, however, is not politics but psychology . .

. Faulks's committed fans will be left looking forward to the next instalment of this thought-provoking trilogy' The Times'A magnificent, moving novel' Independent'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' Antony Beevor'A tale of love - lost and found - and the strength of the human spirit' Sunday Telegraph