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Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life - except when there is a crisis at work, a leak in the roof or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? Nora has never New York...

The Library of Ice is a fascinating and beautifully rendered evocation of the interplay of people and their environment on a fragile planet, and of a writer’s quest to define the value of her work in a disappearing landscape.