The Ice Lovers
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2009
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781552788028
- Publish Date
- Oct 2009
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770871151
- Publish Date
- Oct 2009
- List Price
- $14.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552788844
- Publish Date
- Oct 2010
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
In 2016, Helen, an historian, and David, a government official, journey to a slowly disintegrating Antarctic. Helen goes in search of a story. Three years before their journey, Nara, a young scientist, disappeared from an Antarctic base; she is presumed dead, though her body has never been recovered. When an international emergency forces Helen and David to over-winter in the Antarctic, a more complex story than the official record emerges – of what happened to Nara, the pilot Luke and Nara’s lover Alexander, and of what is happening to the ice. Sitting at Nara’s desk, reading her diaries on a snowed-in Antarctic base, Helen wonders if the ice will ever give up its secrets.
About the author
Jean McNeil, a native of Nova Scotia, has lived in London since 1991. She spent the austral summer of 2005-2006 in Antarctica as the British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council of England International Fellow to Antarctica, and has since been writer-in-residence in the Falkland Islands, Svalbard and on a scientific expedition to Greenland.
Editorial Reviews
'McNeil has a sure hand and a deft touch with prose, and an ability to blend, for each character, profound inner experience with the awkwardnesses of social interactions. . . . The Ice Lovers is an accomplished novel, with its created worlds close enough to our own to be recognizable, yet different enough to be alarming.'
