Product Description

Fabulous family saga of secrets held through two generations, set against the atmospheric background of the Lake District at Christmas The year of 1936 is drawing to a close. Winter grips Wetmoreland and causes a rare phenonmenon: the lakes freeze. For two local families, the Richardsons and the Grindleys, this will bring unexpected upheaval, as the frozen lake entices long-estranged siblings and children to return home for the holiday season. Some are aware of what is happening in Europe; others don't want to know. Everyone's keen to put aside their troubles -- money worries, love tangles, career problems, domestic rifts -- and enjoy themselves skating while they can. But one visitor carries the seed of violence and not even the redoubtable matriarch of the Richardson clan can prevent the carefully buried secrets of the past from reappearing and transforming everything. A compelling blend of family closeness and strife, dazzling passion and the dark influence of history, this is an enthralling read to curl up and savour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148053 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

About the Author
Elizabeth Edmondson has recently settled in Italy, having lived for many years in Dorset while she raised her family. Her grandparents once had a house on the lake shore in Westmoreland, and it was their stories and photographs which inspired her to write 'The Frozen Lake'.

Customer Reviews

frozen lake
This is a rollocking good read. It is nostaligic but without being in any way cute about it and dispenses its historical knowledge with a very light touch. It also has a fantastically malign matriarch. I enjoyed the way a large cast of characters is gathered together at the beginning and then they all come together in the Lake District so we can see how they interact. As it progressed it exerted a vice-like grip and by the end I was reading this way into the night. Truly unputdownable.

Frozen Lake
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. The opening chapters took a little piecing together as so many characters were drawn into the plot, but it all made sense quite quickly. Eager to read any future novels by this author.

Two dimensional characters
Ok perhaps I did not give this a fighting chance....200 pages and two dimensional characters still being introduced just induced massive yawns in me and I gave up.

There might be incredible twists and turns to the story but I am afraid I just did not have the stamina to get to them!

This was my first and last Elizabeth Edmondson I am afraid!