Set in the near future <strong>The Ice People</strong> imagines an ice age enveloping theNorthern Hemisphere. It is Africas relative warmth that offers a last h... » 

Set in the near future The Ice People imagines an ice age enveloping theNorthern Hemisphere. It is Africas relative warmth that offers a last hope tonortherly survivors. As relationships between men and women break down thenovel charts one mans struggle to save his alienated son and bring him to thesouth and to salvation. Maggie Gee is the author of The White Familyshortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the InternationalIMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Flood longlisted for the Orange Prize.She is the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature and lives inLondon. «