Ice

Astonishes with poetic brilliance

Sunday Telegraph

There is nothing else like it... This ice is not psychological or metaphysical ice; here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner's.

Doris Lessing

One of the most terrifying postulations about the end of the world.. One can only admire the strength and courage of this visionary

The Times

Brutal, addictive and extremely entertaining... strange, unsettling and harsh

Guardian

Serious, evocative and surprising, unique in its obsessive images of encroachment

Christopher Priest

One of the most mysterious of modern writers, Anna Kavan created a uniquely fascinating fictional world. Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision

J. G. Ballard

Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan...she just keeps extending herself, keeps telescoping language and plot.

Patti Smith, Penthouse

Ice is superbly unsettling... this novel is perfect winter reading.

James Marriott, The Times

Just the most magnificent book...hugely enigmatic, a genuine novel of the unconscious and a masterpiece. I feel very passionate about it, as you can probably tell.

Frank Tallis, The Guardian