The Color of Ice

This exquisitely written novel touched me in so many ways. It tells the story of Catherine, a hard-working photographer who spontaneously decides to pay her way to Iceland to complete an assignment for one of her commercial clients. She'll interview a glass-blowing artist based there, then travel alone through the countryside, taking in the sights and sounds of the “Land of Fire and Ice” with its thermal lagoons, ice caves, and other-worldly Northern Lights.

Little does she realize her whole life is about to change as she's challenged by not only the beauty of her surroundings but by Mack, the enigmatic glass artist she meets and falls in love with. Back home, her adult children get into scrapes and turn to her for help, but for once, she doesn't leap to save them but instead counsels them about how to solve their own problems. As her holiday stretches and her relationship with Mack deepens, aspects of herself she'd buried rise to the surface and she finds herself becoming both vulnerable and fascinated to realize how her life might be different.

Part women's fiction, part romance, part travelogue, The Color of Ice, with its lyrical prose and its riveting story line, will hold you in its thrall from the first page to its final revelation.