“Shit,” he curses, though his voice is empty.
When his car runs out of petrol on a quite street in suburban Sydney Jeremy Blackwell finds himself pitched back into a life he left behind more than 20 years ago. He meets Jason Langdon, the father of his ex-girlfriend and together they set off on a road trip around Australia, getting to know each other again as adults and re-appraising the events that have led them where they now are.
Footprints in the Snow is a novel about how each of us tries to leave little records of our lives to last on when we are gone. It is about threee different approaches to this: leaving a legacy through writing, through raising children, and through physically marking the earth upon which you have walked.
Epic in scope and complex in structure, Footprints in the Snow is a book that should only have been written in a dream with the knowledge that their are no answers to the mysteries of life, only endless questions, and the quest to answer them.