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The Ice Queen

Alice Hoffman

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English
Vintage
01 May 2006
Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best, in a dark, compelling and magical novel about grief, addictive passion and second chances.

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.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9780099488835
ISBN 10:   0099488833
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of many successful novels and screenplays, including Here on Earth (Oprah Book Club Choice in 1998), Illumination Nights, Turtle Moon, Practical Magic (made into a major film starring Sandra Bullock, Aidan Quinn and Nicole Kidman), Local Girls, The River King (also filming now), Blue Diary, The Probable Future and Blackbird House. She lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews for The Ice Queen

"""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"


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