Description: "Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision."--The Times Literary Supplement New edition of well received novel, first published in the UK in 1998. Title tackles the issue of climate change and the widening gap in relations between men and women. The 'Ice People'is the name given to the climate migrants from Europe by the people in the Southern Hemisphere who fear that they will be overun and want to keep the northern refugees out. The books central concerns seem more urgent today than when it was first published.A novel sent in the near future where social and climatic changes have led to a world where technology has superceded nature, a frozen world where people scavange to survive. The final third of the novel is a race against time, a hazrdous chase south across Europe to try to get to Africa before the borders are closed against 'The Ice People' from the north.

Please Wait