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Ice, Louis Nowra
Ice
Louis Nowra

Allen and Unwin | Paperback | $32.95
Fiction | Published 1/11/2008 | ISBN: 1-7417-5483-6

Ice tells the story of Malcolm McEacharn, the man who brings joy to early Sydney in the form of an iceberg and who later pioneers the first successful refrigerated voyage from Australia to London. He is a brilliant businessman who will later bring electricity to Melbourne, become its Lord Mayor and be one step away from becoming Prime Minister - but he is driven by an obsession that threatens to destroy him. Ice also tells a parallel story, set in contemporary Sydney, of a young biographer who lies in a coma, and her bereft husband's desperate attempts to resurrect her by unearthing the truth about her subject, Malcolm McEacharn. From the frozen, desolate Antarctic to bustling Victorian London, from the Yorkshire moors to the gritty streets of modern-day Kings Cross, Ice walks the line between life and death, fact and fantasy, grief and madness.

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