No one knows why the ice has come & no one can stop it Every day it creeps further across the earth covering the land in snow & freezing everything in its path Through this bleached devastated world one man pursues the sylph-like silver-haired girl he loves as she keeps running
- away from her husband; away from the sinister &warden& who seeks to control her; away from him &A raw brutal tale set in a frozen post-nuclear dystopia addictive & extremely entertaining& Guardian& There is nothing else quite like Ice& Doris Lessing& She is De Quincey&s heir & Kafka&s sister& Brian Aldiss