Delilah of the Snows

Bindloss's primary powers as a storyteller are in description and characterization. When an author succeeds in making me feel chilled on a hot day, he's done his job. The pace is slower than many other tales by other authors, but I knew Ingleby better than he knew himself, and could feel each pang of Hetty's loyal heart. Those two were my favorite characters, though many other interesting and many-layered characters peopled these pages. It's a tale of hard work, of mining in old Canada, and of what really matters when life puts everything to the test.