SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and intimate dachas, the human kindnesses and state-wide corruption. Yet as Nick fell for Masha, he found that he fell away from himself; he knew that she was dangerous, but life in Russia was addictive, and it was too easy to bury secrets - and corpses - in the winter snows...
"Miller's debut novel is an electrifying tour of the dark side of Moscow, and of human nature... A gorgeously crafted story of a man hurtling into love... Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted."
Independent
"A superlative portrait of a country in which everything has its price, Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best."
Financial Times
"Wonderfully evoked... Reads like Graham Greene on steroids... Miller's complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing."
