Ice Trap: A Novel of Psychological Suspense - Hardcover

Sewell, Kitty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416539972 ISBN 13: 9781416539971

Publisher: Touchstone, 2008

Synopsis

Learning that he had fathered twins in icy remote Canada fifteen years earlier, a British surgeon finds his career and marriage rapidly unraveling in the face of painful changes that compel him to confront past demons. 100,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main.

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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

About the Author:

Kitty Sewell, a psychotherapist and a sculptor, was born in Sweden but met her husband, a young English doctor, while living in Northern Canada. Sewell and her family now divide their time between Wales and Spain, where they own and operate a fruit plantation. Translated into more than ten languages, Ice Trap is Sewell's first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416539972
• ISBN 13: 9781416539971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352