Review

John Banville's Agatha Christie-style murder mystery is a dark twist on the country-house classic

By Anna Creer
December 26 2020 - 12:00am
John Banville has admitted to being a perfectionist. Picture: Shutterstock
John Banville has admitted to being a perfectionist. Picture: Shutterstock
  • Snow, by John Banville. Crime Fiction. Faber. $29.99.

Irish novelist, John Banville won the Booker Prize for The Sea in 2005. He has described himself as a "perfectionist", lamenting that he can spend a day on one sentence in his intricate, vocabulary rich novels.

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