title: Necklace of Warm Snow
author: Hall, Brenda
description: Necklace of Warm Snow tells in parallel the stories of Alistair, a British agent in wartime France, and his daughter, Hilary. Alistair falls in love with a young Jewish woman, Lena, who is in hiding from the Paris round-ups of 1942. When he is pulled out of France he has to leave Lena behind. After the War, trapped in a loveless marriage, Alistair retreats into a world of his own. He finds one more chance of happiness with his young mistress, Sarah. Alistair decides to return to France to confront the ghosts of his past. During this trip he is murdered. Hilary's life is blighted by her childhood in which her parents' marriage was a battlefield. Some years after the unsolved murder, she embarks on a quest to find out more about her father. What she discovers leads to her solving the murder and coming to understand herself and the direction her life must take