Book Review: ‘The Secret Of Snow: A Novel’ By Viola Shipman

A heart-warming, well-written book about a 50 year-old woman that must start over in the town she left years ago and never looked back. One of the best books so far of the fall. Sunny Dunes (a made up name) is a meteorologist in Palm Springs at the top-rated news show. When a young new producer comes in and the ratings slip a little, he fires the long-time host and Sunny and plans to replace her with an artificial intelligence to do the new. She goes out and gets drunk, comes back to the TV station and goes on the evening newscast and tells everyone what’s going on and looses it live on air. The clip then goes viral. With no options at the moment, she gets an offer from Lisa, a woman she went to college with, to do the weather for her station back in her home in Michaigan. It’s a small market but a chance to start over. Sunny has bad memories of things that happened there years ago but ends up taking the job and moving back in with her 75 year-old mother. Things start out okay but soon go downhill as someone is sabotaging her and she ends up demoted but determined to make things work. She also meets Mason and they soon start dating and it could really be something. And then another video goes viral, in a good way, and Sunny will have big decisions to make about her career going forward.

You can pick up The Secret Of Snow in stores on Tuesday, October 26th from Graydon House.