Snow Blind

A Black run to the icy heart of the male Psyche.

Snow Blind is a viciously funny novel with a moral, an insight into the state of modern men and fatherhood.

Daniel Greenhenge is sliding uncontrollably towards the dual dangers of a gaping ice-blue crevasse and a marriage of convenience. This 40-year-old music-obsessed copywriter is a lovely but hapless man. His survival will be determined by whether he can take responsibility for his own situation.

Richard Blanchard’s epic debut novel takes place over an extended stag ski weekend in Chamonix, France, below the peaks of Mont Blanc.

As well as his impending marriage and stag do, Dan is under pressure from every angle. Firstly his son Bepe is in a life threatening accident at Manchester airport. Then, there is Robert, a misogynistic estranged college friend who disrespects everything Dan is, who leads the stag party astray. Dan’s boss Steve has also travelled mischievously, with work to heap onto him, with which they will try to save their advertising agency. However, to Dan the biggest worry is the presence of Juliet, the love-of-a-lifetime ex girlfriend who has wangled her way onto the weekend; an honorary stagette on a mission.

As the stags cruelly push Dan into more embarrassing situations, he finds he can’t refuse. But when they take this novice skier to the Vallee Blanche, some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, have they pushed him too far?