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Jean McNeil
The Ice Lovers 2016: three years on from the worst flu pandemic in a hundred years. A young woman scientist has disappeared from the Antarctic base, presumed dead. Helen, a historian, sets out to make sense of the mystery. Sitting at Nara's desk, reading her diaries, she wonders if the ice will ever give up its secrets. Jean McNeil has been compared to Annie Proulx and Alastair MacLeod Published in Canada by McArthur & Co (2009) UK rights available
Jean McNeil grew up on Cape Breton Island and lives in London. She has taught at the Arvon Foundation, Birkbeck College and on the MA in creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. She was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada in 2003. In 2005/6 Jean McNeil was a British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council fellow in Antarctica.
The Ice Lovers
Jean McNeil grew up on Cape Breton Island and lives in London. She has taught at the Arvon Foundation, Birkbeck College and on the MA in creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. She was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada in 2003. In 2005/6 Jean McNeil was a British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council fellow in Antarctica.
