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    Ice Dancing

    By Catherine Czerkawska

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    Ice Dancing is a very grown up love story with a Scottish village setting. It is a story of the lightning strike of desire at first sight, as well as of past suffering. It is a story about rural life, but also about sporting prowess and the toll it can take on those most closely involved.

    'He was utterly and completely beautiful out there on the ice. The music was part of the magic, sensual and insistent. He seemed like nothing but movement. I could have watched him all day. A creature of ice and fire. Bright and enticing.'

    Helen - who tells her own story - has almost resigned herself to the downward slide into mildly discontented middle age. She's an attractive and intelligent woman, approaching forty, married and living in a rural backwater, with her only child about to fly the nest. But when she meets and falls in love with Joe, a Canadian ice hockey player spending a season with a local team, she realises that nothing can ever be the same for either of them again. Joe is nine years younger and - apparently - a hero to die for: good looking, polite and articulate. But although Joe skates like an angel, he has his own demons to cope with, a sadder, more complicated and infinitely more shocking past than Helen could ever imagine.

    Like so many of Czerkawska's novels, which often deal with sorrow and betrayal, this is an intriguing and enthralling story with a dark side, a story about the physical imperative of attraction between two people, the power of love and the possibility of healing.

    Catherine Czerkawska is an established author, living and working in Scotland. As well as producing a significant body of fiction and non fiction, traditionally and independently published, she has written for radio, television and theatre.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCatherine Czerkawska
    Release dateSep 7, 2020
    ISBN9781393613435
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    Catherine Czerkawska

    Catherine Czerkawska is a critically acclaimed writer of long and short fiction, non-fiction and plays. Her novels include The Curiosity Cabinet, The Physic Garden, Bird of Passage and The Jewel, about the life of Robert Burns’s wife, Jean Armour.  In 2019 Contraband published A Proper Person to be Detained, an intriguing exploration of family history that takes us from 19th-century Ireland to the industrial heartlands of England and Scotland. Following on from this, The Last Lancer is a personal account of loss and survival in Poland and Ukraine, a book with a tragic resonance, given the current situation in that country.  Catherine's stage plays include Wormwood, about the Chernobyl disaster, and Quartz, both commissioned by Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. She has also written more than 100 hours of drama for BBC Radio 4. She spent four years as Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland and when not writing, collects and deals in the antique textiles that occasionally find their way into her fiction.

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