Winter is only beginning to thaw in a remote forest as Anna treks for her survival, accompanied by someone she cannot trust. With distilled clarity, this short novel carries the reader on a journey from victimhood to self-possession. In this book Angus Gaunt has stepped with deep insight into the place of a girl who has little more than her own inner resources to deal with sustained privation and the threat of violence. The extreme circumstances of this story are written with a quiet yet incisive humanity that invites us to understand whether it is possible to come to terms with the irreconcilable, the unforgiveable.