Among the Summer Snows

Christopher Nicholson was born in London in 1956. He lives in south-west England. His first novel, THE FATTEST MAN IN AMERICA, was published in 2005. THE ELEPHANT KEEPER, which followed in 2009, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel award and for the Encore Award. His third novel, WINTER, about the life of the elderly Thomas Hardy, was published in 2014. A non-fiction book, AMONG THE SUMMER SNOWS, was published in June 2017. A meditation on life and loss, it is organised around a series of walks to the great snow-beds that survive each summer in the Scottish mountains. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing, and is currently longlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.