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Jean McNeil

Featured Title The Ice Lovers
A haunting story of ghosts and ice, of beauty and obsession, and the terrible consequences of unrequited love
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 though her body has never been recovered. 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.

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	Jean McNeil has been compared to Annie Proulx and Alastair MacLeod
	She was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada 2003; was the winner of the Prism International Fiction Competition 1997; and received a New London Writers Award from the London Arts Board in 1997.

No Text Jean McNeil grew up on Cape Breton Island. She studied at the University of Toronto and University College, London. She has lived for much of the last sixteen years in London, though travelling extensively in Latin America, and most recently to the Antarctic. Her published novels include Hunting Down Home, Private View and The Interpreter of Silences. She has taught at the Arvon Foundation and currently teaches on the MA in creative writing course at the University of East Anglia.

No Text The Antarctic, setting for Jean McNeil's new novel, The Ice Lovers. Photograph by Jean McNeil. In 2005/6 Jean McNeil was a British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council fellow in Antarctica. You can visit her page on the Arts Council website by clicking Jean in the Antarctic.

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