Ice

Malcolm McEacharn astonishes colonial Sydney by towing an iceberg through the Heads; as it melts, it gives up a sailor frozen intact four decades earlier. A brilliant businessman, McEacharn goes on to pioneer refrigerated shipping from Australia to London, bring electricity to Melbourne and become its Lord Mayor, but mourning his wife leads him into a fixation that could ruin everything he has built. Alongside runs a story from today's Sydney: a young woman writing his biography has fallen into a coma, and her husband hopes to bring her back by finding out who McEacharn really was. The book ranges from the Antarctic and Victorian London to the Yorkshire moors, tropical Cairns, imperial Japan and Kings Cross.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, United Kingdom, Japan

First published

2008

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9781741754834 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)

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