A young Englishman goes to Cold War Leipzig for a weekend with a group ofstudent actors and during his brief visit beyond the Iron Curtain falls foran East Germ... » 

A young Englishman goes to Cold War Leipzig for a weekend with a group ofstudent actors and during his brief visit beyond the Iron Curtain falls foran East German girl who is just beginning to be aware of the horrendous way hercountry is governed. Her misery touches him her love excites him but he istoo frightened to help. He spends 19 years suppressing the strength of hisfeelings for the girl he knew only by her nickname Snowleg until one daywith Germany by now united he decides to go back and look for her. But who isshe now how will his having once abandoned her have affected her life and howwill he find her? Snowleg is the story of more than one sundered love ofboth broken dreams and damaged families. The central figure of the novel whogrows up as an Englishman chooses to live in Berlin. He is a senior doctorbut his life is a startling mixture of romantic of erratic of dissolutebehaviour. For long years he nurses the secret of Snowleg and his longing fora love he had the chance to grasp but failed to take. «