The Ice Queen - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099488833 ISBN 13: 9780099488835

Publisher: Vintage, 2006

Synopsis

Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups. The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night and ruins her life. She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day, standing by her kitchen window, she is struck by lightning.

Instead of killing her, this cataclysmic event sparks off a new beginning. She seeks out Lazarus Jones, a fellow lightning survivor. He is her opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets - what turned one to ice and the other to fire.

The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion, loss, second chances and the secrets that come to define us, if we're not careful.

About this title

Review:

"Alice Hoffman is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane" (The Times)

"Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer; she plots conjunctions of mundane and magical events with such ease that the reader never doubts her word" (New Yorker)

"Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute eye for detail - Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity" (The Times)

"[Hoffman] does it beautifully, composing a lyrical tale that does not waster a single word, a shamelessly heart-breaking story that will leave barely a dry eye in the house" (Lesley McDowell Independent on Sunday)

"Enchanting" (Sunday Times)

From the Publisher:

Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best, in a dark, compelling and magical novel about grief, addictive passion and second chances

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099488833
• ISBN 13: 9780099488835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224