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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Ice Letters
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'A First World War novel of love, peace, violence and Antarctica

'Adelaide, 1916, and Dora Somerville grieves for her brother, Edgar, killed in France. In the course of an oppressively hot summer, she decides to abandon her pacifist beliefs and embrace violence as a means to end the Great War.

'In his printing shop, her lover, Daniel Bone, also makes a momentous decision. He can no longer face the constant pressure to fight in the war – he will join an Antarctic expedition and abandon Australia, leaving Dora behind. However, the peace Daniel seeks eludes him when he is caught up in a crisis in the icy wilderness as the men find themselves under attack.

'When the lovers parted, they had agreed to write to one another, although they knew the letters would never be sent. Thousands of miles apart, their passion grows as the decisions they have made imperil them both. ' (Publication summary)

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Review : Ice Letters Jennifer Somerville , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 40)

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
Ice Letters Review : Susan Errington's Thoughtful Wartime Historical Romance Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 28 July 2016;

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
'The place is Adelaide, the year is 1916, and Dora Somerville's brother has just been killed fighting in France. She is the last remaining member of her family, and her lover Daniel, a printer, is in the same situation. ...'
[Review] Ice Letters Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 July 2016; (p. 36)

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
[Review] Susan Errington, Ice Letters Emily Sutherland , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 9 no. 1 2016;

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
[Review] Ice Letters Katharine England , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 July 2016; (p. 36)

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
Ice Letters Review : Susan Errington's Thoughtful Wartime Historical Romance Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 28 July 2016;

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
'The place is Adelaide, the year is 1916, and Dora Somerville's brother has just been killed fighting in France. She is the last remaining member of her family, and her lover Daniel, a printer, is in the same situation. ...'
Review : Ice Letters Jennifer Somerville , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2016; (p. 40)

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
[Review] Susan Errington, Ice Letters Emily Sutherland , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 9 no. 1 2016;

— Review of Ice Letters Susan Errington , 2016 single work novel
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