A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets - and corpses - come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw...Snowdrops is a chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.

Prizes

Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 2011 and Galaxy National Book Awards: Galaxy New Writer of the Year 2011 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011.

Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted Independent, A superlative portrait... Snowdrops displays a worldly confidence reminiscent of Robert Harris at his best Financial Times, Reads like Graham Greene on steroids... Miller's complex, gripping debut novel is undoubtedly the real thing Daily Mail, Miller brilliantly showcases Moscow as his novel's strutting, charismatic star... disturbing and dazzling Sunday Telegraph, Tight, compelling... A totally gripping first novel The Times, A tremendously assured, cool, complex, slow-burn of a novel and a bleak and superbly atmospheric portrait of modern Russia William Boyd, Superbly atmospheric...Elegantly written, and spot on its detail Observer, A chilling first novel about the slide from relative innocence into amorality. I love the honesty of the writing, and the way the furious cold of a bitter Moscow winter gradually emerges as a character in its own right Julie Myerson, Intoxicating... It will whirl you off your feet and set your moral compass spinning... A.D. Miller's sophisticated and many-layered debut novel skewers the relationship between victim and abuser, self-delusion and corruption, love and moral freefall Spectator

Born in London in 1974, A. D. Miller studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton. He worked as a television producer before joining The Economist. From 2004 to 2007 he was the magazine's Moscow correspondent, travelling widely across Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of the acclaimed family history The Earl of Petticoat Lane (Wm. Heinemann, 2006); Snowdrops is his first novel. He lives in London with his wife and children.