There was much to enjoy here, but I found I couldn't connect with it. I'd read more from this author in the future though.

Offbeat and eerie little book about a young girl lost in life, who tries to solve the puzzle of her mother leaving her.

Quirky and imaginative Yuki is lost in life, haunted by the question of why has her beloved mother decided to take her own life. So, armed with the photo of her mother visiting Haworth, the birthplace of the Brontë family, she tries to find some answers. And, after all, she finds some answers and some questions.

Ths book is all about atmosphere. Not yet magical realism (too melancholy in the snow for that), but one can hear a little echo from the works of Haruki Murakami and other Japanese authors (and maybe the author´s admiration for the things Japanese is the reason for the Japanese heroine? Or is it to contrast the English traditional culture with the different one? You decide).
Not for the common reader, but if you like little unusual things all about feelings and atmosphere, this one might be for you.

"'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...'

Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death.

Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath.

Both a pilgrimage and an investigation into family secrets, Yuki's journey is the one she always knew she'd have to make, and one of the most charming and haunting in recent fiction."

Brontes. That is all.

While the plot, and indeed characters, were interesting, I found the narrative voice so off putting that I really struggled to read this book. The detachment of the narrator, combined with the fact that the perspective was 'Yuki's' meant I really didn't connect strongly enough with the characters, and the plot wasn't exciting enough to make up for this. Sorry, but I don't think I would recommend Yuki Chan.