Ice Dancing - Kindle Fiction

Ice Dancing  
by Catherine Czerkawska 

Ice Dancing is a novel about the lightning strike of love at first sight.

‘He came gliding into my life and changed everything. He didn't intend for it to happen any more than I did. I think it took us both by surprise. Like a bolt of lightning. Like a puck to the head, as Joe would say.’

Helen has almost resigned herself to the downward slide into mildly discontented middle age. She's a Scottish farmer’s wife, approaching forty, living in a rural backwater, with her only child about to fly the nest. But when she meets and falls in love with Joe, a Canadian ice hockey player spending a season with a local team, she realises that nothing will ever be the same for either of them again.

Hilary Ely, reviewing this novel for Vulpes Libris, writes, 'The narrative brilliantly describes the physical imperative they have to be together – not just the snatched times alone, but the magnetic pull they have towards one another when other people are around, their almost uncontrollable urge to touch one another and the risks that brings.'

But this is a story with a dark side, a romance with a twist, for although Joe skates like an angel, he has his own demons to cope with, a sadder, more complicated and much more shocking past than Helen could ever imagine.

'Everyone, it seems, carries a skeleton in their closet, a secret which they hold from their nearest and dearest. Joe is no exception and one unforeseen consequence of his affair with Helen is that his past is revealed in all its horror. But Czerkawska doesn’t overdo this, it comes out piecemeal and then with a tsunami, and then life goes on – but changed. Just like in reality. You take the hit and you carry on. Damaged, changed but you carry on. Because that’s what people do.'
Cally Phillips, The Indie eBook Review

Ice Dancing is a sexy, unconventional and very grown up love story. It is also a tale of past suffering and the betrayal of trust. Readers should be aware that this is not always a comfortable read. The problems at the heart of it are widespread and – sadly - refuse to disappear.

Catherine Czerkawska has had a long and happy switchback of a career as a professional novelist and award winning playwright, living and working in Scotland. As well as producing a significant body of fiction, long and short, she has written more than 100 hours of drama for BBC radio, television and theatre.

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