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Magdalena
Occasionally, during the reading of Ice you’ll need to pause and run a cool piece of ice across your brow, as this is a fever of a novel. There are two storylines which bisect neatly, running across the timeless trajectory of lost love. The one which opens the book takes place in the 1880s, and follows the development of Malcolm McEacharn, a real life explorer/businessman who, in collaboration with his friend Andrew McIlwraith brings an iceberg to Sydney. At this point in the novel the only hint ...more
Louise
A curious mix of fact and fiction. Most of the details of the life of Sir Malcolm McEacharn are true, which could easily lead you into thinking that the fictional ones are too.

Nowra writes a story of two men deeply in love with their wives - 1 dead, and 1 in a coma. The beginning of the book was confusing, with the story of Malcolm interrupted by Rowan's comments to his comatose wife Beatrice. However once you grasp the idea that the story is being told by Rowan, to Beatrice, about Malcolm, thes
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Anne_MB
Dec 16, 2011 marked it as read-from-library
Judy
Mar 29, 2013 rated it really liked it