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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN num: 9781416539971
ISBN number: 1416539972
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 05, 2008
Publishing house: Touchstone
Sale Popularity Level: 238491
Studio: Touchstone
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Dear Doctor Woodruff,
I hope you don't mind me writing to you.
I think I'm your daughter....
This international bestseller is a startlingly assured very first novel of deception, ambiguity, and shattering revelations.
At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found sucess in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child she longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent.
Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic wilderness of Canada where Woodruff lived and worked years before, a woman claims he is the father of her thirteen-year-old twins.
Woodruff knows it cannot be true -- but DNA tests don't lie.
To make sense of the impossible, he must return to that frozen wilderness, where no rules and few laws apply. Leaving his shattered relationship behind, he finds that his well-guarded secrets have even deeper and more sinister layers. But the people he once knew in that godforsaken place guard secrets of their own, and no one -- least of all the ruthless woman at the dark core of this maelstrom -- will help him uncover the truth.
The past quickly gains a stranglehold, threatening to unravel everything Woodruff has built -- his marriage, his career. And a man who has made one mistake may pay dearly for another -- and risk destroying his entire future.... - A Bertelsmann Book Club International Book of the Month
- A Literary Guild Main Selection
- Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award
- Shortlisted for the Hay Festival Welsh Book of the Year
Amazon.com Review:
Kitty Sewell's Ice Trap starts with a bombshell. Dafydd Woodruff, who's desperately been trying to conceive a child with his wife, receives a letter: 'Dear Doctor Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter...'
Suddenly, a relatively innocent past takes over his present life, and that of his wife. It further develops that there isn't just a daughter; this purported 'daughter' is actually one of twins, a girl and a boy. Deep in the remote, sub-arctic wilderness where Dafydd had worked 15 years earlier, these children were conceived and born to a woman for whom he felt little but animosity. She was--and still is at the time the novel takes place--head nurse in the hospital where Dafydd did a locum. He was running away from a tragic medical accident, and this distant area seemed like a good place to escape to.
DNA tests are ordered immediately to clear Dafydd in his wife's eyes. The tests are positive, the marriage is very precarious, and Dafydd goes back to the Canadian wilderness to sort things out. What he finds there is complex and compelling. The surprises are not set-ups but develop organically, making the story believable. This is the extremely self-assured debut of a writer to watch. She has deftly created landscape, character, mood and suspense to bring her story to its snapper of a conclusion. --Valerie Ryan
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I finished this book but only because I was really waiting for something big to happen. I am surprised by the number of good reviews for this book. Not that it was horrible I just didn't relate well to the way the book was written. The author's dialog in the storyline is jumpy, enough that I am back re-reading the previous paragraphs thinking I missed something only to find, no, that is just the style of writing. I personally found this book boring, too much filler. Just a bunch of little plots all thrown together in the end.
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Who could ask for more? An acute sense of place - you can feel the cold and the interiors that one is forced to seek. Characters that are neither hero nor villain (save one), who are doing the best they can - finely drawn, memorable, and consistent. A medical/legal/relational plot that keeps the reader engaged and eagerly turnng the subsequent page. Other reviewers have given character and plot details. All I would add is that this book will keep you in pleasat suspense and wanting more - even feeling regretful when it ends.
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I found this to be unusual and an excellent read. I liked it so much I have recommended it to several people and purchased a copy for a gift.
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Despite seeing a number of critical reader's reviews about Ice Trap here on Amazon (and many very good ones too) I ordered it, because a friend recommended the novel to me with unbridled enthusiasm.
I can truly say that it's one of the most interesting novels I've read in a long time. It's marketed as a thriller, and I have a feeling that it's here the problem lies for both the author and her readers. The American market thinks of thrillers in terms of bloodshed, domestic violence, pedophilia and gruesome murders. Along comes the ubiquitous police detective/ investigative journalist/ forensic pathologist to cleverly sniff out the truth. The reader buys a thriller expecting to be thrilled to the point of the ridiculous on every page.
Well, Ice Trap is not about that. It's a totally different kind of thriller, where the characters are complex, most of them neither good nor bad, but real, and the setting draws you in so that you literally live in the cold harsh climate of Moose Creek. The suspense is subtle but insistent and the plot twists are truly ingenious.
I looked up the authors website and saw that Ice Trap has won prices and has been short-listed for a couple of prestigious awards in Europe. I can see why. Can't wait for Bloodprint, her subsequent one!
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I thoroughly enjoyed Kitty Sewell's very first novel Ice Trap. I had been browsing in Barnes and Nobles and came across the "usual suspects" ie: books written by the same authors with nothing new and fresh except variations on a theme. I was really looking for something new and I found it! Ice Trap had all the elements of adventure, mystery and a diverse character population to satisfy this readers thirst for a new and interesting backdrop sprinkled with characters that don't conform to what we usually expect them to given their education and social standing.
This very first novel is the true "expat" experience. It represents people no longer constrained by their own usual cultural and social mores and who fall into the extreme lower parts of themselves.
It was also interesting to taste a culture that few have ever read or witnessed. This was a really fun book to read and it begs for a sequel
Mark S.
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