Icefields

Icefields was awarded the “Best First Book” in the Canada and Caribbean division of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Writers Guild of Alberta “Best First Book Award”, and the Banff Book Festival grand prize.

At 3.15 pm on 17th August 1898, Dr Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies & slid into a crevasse Nearly 60' below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting his desire to sleep The ice in front of him is lit with a pale blue-green radiance There, embedded in the glacier, Byrne sees something that will inextricably link him to the vast bed of ice, and the people who inhabit this strange corner of the world.