Another lucky find in Brixton Library, this novel has some of my favourite ingredients: sparse but elegant prose (sometimes bordering on the obscure), and a bleak but beautiful setting. A small cast of very individual and original characters, each one driven and obsessive in a different way, but as their stories are interwoven with the history of the area, all deeply affected by the power of the glacier and the icefields above.
(Victoria Grey-Edwards - bwl 5 October 2000 ) |
