Author:Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane
—— The TimesAlice 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 YorkerLike 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 SundayEnchanting
—— Sunday TimesIt's easy to get absorbed in this novel...Life is not like this, but would it be such a bad thing if there were a it more magic in the world?
—— Daily TelegraphHoffman delivers one of the best plot twists I can remember
—— ObserverHoffman is a skilled and experienced writer... beautifully constructed
—— GuardianA strangely provocative, grown-up fairy fable
—— Good HousekeepingCuts deeply into the griefs and passions that shape us all and into heartbreaking secrets
—— The TimesEmotionally compelling
—— Psychologies MagazineHoffman writes as beautifully as ever
—— Marie ClaireHoffman knows that good fairytales, like people, are never simple
—— HeraldBeautifully written, mystical and intriguing, this is a story of life, death, love and second chances. Enthralling
—— Woman and Home
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