A Cold Season

A Cold Season is rich in voice, character and landscape. The novel tells the story of fourteen-year-old Beth. Her brother Sam and her father, Owens, have gone missing in a freak winter storm. In a small house in the foothills of Mount Kosciuszko, Beth is stuck with her mother and her other brother, Little Sasha. They are waiting and longing for Sam and Owens to return. In what threatens to become an emotional and physical pressure cooker, tensions flare, and to make matters worse, Mama is seeing the local bad man, Wallace.

Matthew Hooper’s debut expresses how people deal differently with absence and hope. It is a story of finding agency in a world where people, and particularly the young, are often powerless. As Beth plays with language to reclaim her spirit and family, A Cold Season emerges as unforgettable—a novel that captures rural poverty and human capacity with true soul.

‘A work of art that is also a page-turner. An instant classic.’
—Antoni Jach

A Cold Season by Matthew Hooper

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