The countryside is hundreds of feet deep in snow, and a small community is managing to exist in the bell-tower of a church, just above the snow level. For sustenance they make journeys to the shops of the village far below by tunnels. They also stay alive by hunting the ferocious and telepathic bear-like animals known as Pals.
The individuals in the small group are brilliantly portrayed, in turn defeatist, boastful, querulous, selfish and generous. They are obsessive, they argue; but when danger threatens, as it often does, they immediately band together in their common fight for survival.
- ISBN10 0575018518
- ISBN13 9780575018518
- Publish Date 24 October 1974
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English