# The Ice Queen

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- Book: [The Ice Queen](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-hoffmanova/the-ice-queen) ([The Ice Queen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-hoffmanova/the-ice-queen.md))
- Authors: [Alice Hoffmanová](https://www.bookquiver.com/alice-hoffmanova)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9948-883-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2006-08-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups. The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night and ruins her life. She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day, standing by her kitchen window, she is struck by lightning. Instead of killing her, this cataclysmic event sparks off a new beginning. She seeks out Lazarus Jones, a fellow lightning survivor. He is her opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets - what turned one to ice and the other to fire. The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion, loss, second chances and the secrets that come to define us, if we're not careful.