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Dear Doctor Woodruff,
I hope you don't mind me writing to you.
I think I'm your daughter....
This international bestseller is a startlingly assured first novel of deception, ambiguity, and shattering revelations.
At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child she longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent.
Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic wilderness of Canada where Woodruff lived and worked years before, a woman claims he is the father of her thirteen-year-old twins.
Woodruff knows it cannot be true — but DNA tests don't lie.
To make sense of the impossible, he must return to that frozen wilderness, where no rules and few laws apply. Leaving his shattered relationship behind, he finds that his well-guarded secrets have even deeper and more sinister layers. But the people he once knew in that godforsaken place guard secrets of their own, and no one — least of all the ruthless woman at the dark core of this maelstrom — will help him uncover the truth.
The past quickly gains a stranglehold, threatening to unravel everything Woodruff has built — his marriage, his career. And a man who has made one mistake may pay dearly for another — and risk destroying his entire future....
Sewell's first novel is an unusual tale of suspense set in the Canadian subarctic. Early in his career, Dr. Dafydd Woodruff spent a year in the town of Moose Creek working with Sheila Hailey, a nurse who made no secret of her dislike for him. Thirteen years later, as Dafydd and his wife are struggling with infertility, he receives a bombshell of a letter from Sheila's daughter claiming he is her biological father. While Dafydd knows this is impossible, a DNA test seems to prove the matter beyond a doubt. Dafydd's life in Wales begins to collapse, and he returns to Moose Creek to investigate, finding that while some things have changed, others have remained the same, including Sheila's hatred toward him. While the plotline is compelling and readers will want to know how matters is resolved, none of the main characters is very sympathetic, and the ending is predictable. Recommended for public libraries with mystery/fiction collections because of the unusual premise and Sewell's descriptions of the Canadian Arctic. [Published in the United Kingdom in 2005, Ice Trapwas short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association's New Blood Award and the Hay Festival Welsh Book of the Year.-Ed.]
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Arthur Silver
reviewed Ice Trap: A Novel of Psychological Suspense on February 07, 2011
Ice Trap: A Novel of Psychological Suspense
Surgeon Dafydd Eoddruff is leading a pretty good life. That is, until he receives a letter from the sub-Artic wilderness of Canada. A young girl writes him telling him that he is her father and that she has a twin brother.
Dafydd, fifteen years ago, found himself in this desolate area of Canada because he was trying to overcome what may have been a child's death. A child's death, which he may have caused due to an oversight during a routine operation. The oversight may well have been the result of his being hung over from a night of drinking.
He cannot remember any actions of his that would have made him the father of these twins, however, he is unable to convince his wife. He agrees to a DNA test and the test comes back proof positive that he is the father. Still he is unable to accept that he is their father, so he travels back to Canada to confront the mother of the children.
He goes back to tha small hospital that he was working at and renews his relationship with his former workers, some good - some bad. He finds that the mother was the head nurse at the hospital and that he had a very rocky relationship with her.
Dafydd is convinced to help out at the hospital while he is there, and befriends an old native who becomes a very important part of his life. He enters into a relationship with his daughter that leads to more difficulty in his life. Remember he is married and has a wife in England, he is faced with positive DNA that he has fathered twins in Canada to a nurse he cannot remember having relationships with, and presently he is having an affair with a native girl while he is trying to unravel his life.
Although you will probably work all of Dafydd's problems out before he does, this does provide a very satisfying read. One should be aware that there is quite a bit of sexual content in the book. Some of it was necessary to the telling of the story, but unfortunately some of it could have easily been left out.
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