The Ice Twins

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First edition (publ. HarperCollins)

The Ice Twins is a 2015 psychological thriller, written by S. K. Tremayne (a pen name of British author and journalist Sean Thomas[1]). Screenwriter Isaac Adamson has adapted the novel for a film.[2]

Plot

The novel describes the troubled lives of Sarah and Angus Moorcroft who lose one of their young twin daughters in an accident. A year after the tragedy, Angus and Sarah decide to take their surviving twin, Kirstie, to live on a small island off Skye, in Scotland. Just before the family's move to Scotland, Kirstie claims she is, in fact, her identical twin sister Lydia, supposedly dead.

Reception

The novel was an international bestseller, reaching number 1 on the Sunday Times list, in the UK; it spent several months on bestseller lists in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, South Korea, Brazil, and elsewhere.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ Oswell, Paul (31 July 2015). "Meet the male writers who hide their gender to attract female readers". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  2. ^ Galuppo, Mia (9 February 2016). "Black List Screenwriter Isaac Adamson to Adapt 'The Ice Twins'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Ice Twins follow-up from HC this summer - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
  4. ^ BRAECKMAN, FRED (4 February 2015). "Tranen voor een tweeling ****(*)".
  5. ^ "Eisige Schwestern von S. K. Tremayne – Buch von Droemer Knaur". www.droemer-knaur.de.