'An involving narrative, a sharply observed cast and an atmospherically evoked and unusual setting'.

'One of the most atmospheric and affecting novels of the year...A classy piece of contemporary fiction'

A contemporary novel set in Cardiff and Moose Creek, a remote sub-arctic community in Northern Canada. A 46 year old Welsh surgeon's life is turned upside-down by a letter from teenage twins in the Canadian Arctic, claiming to be his children. With his marriage in ruins, he goes back to this remote ice-bound town intending to solve the mystery of the children he cannot remember fathering. The truth turns out to be more extraordinary than he ever imagined and changes the course of his life.

"Dear Dr Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter. My name is Miranda and I have a twin brother, Mark ...' Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to be blown apart by the unexpected news that, fourteen years before, he fathered twins. But that's impossible according to Dafydd since, despite the subsequent DNA evidence which would appear to prove the girl's case, he's never slept with the twins' mother, the icily formidable Sheila Hailey who worked in the hospital at Moose Creek, an isolated town buried deep in the Canadian wilderness where Dafydd spent a career break fifteen years ago. With his marriage in jeopardy and his medical career under threat, Dafydd takes a flight back to the remote, ice-bound community of Moose Creek to make sense of the impossible, and to confront demons he thought he'd left behind years ago ...

Winner of the People's Choice, BBC Radio Wales/Academi Award. Also shortlisted for the 2006 CWA New Blood Award, and 2006 Hay Festival Welsh Book of the Year

Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to be blown apart by the unexpected news that, fourteen years before, he fathered twins. But that's impossible according to Dafydd since, despite the subsequent DNA evidence which would appear to prove the girl's case, he's never slept with the twins' mother, the icily formidable Sheila Hailey who worked in the hospital at Moose Creek, an isolated town buried deep in the Canadian wilderness where Dafydd spent a career break fifteen years ago. With his marriage in jeopardy and his medical career under threat, Dafydd takes a flight back to the remote, ice-bound community of Moose Creek to make sense of the impossible, and to confront demons he thought he'd left behind years ago ...

Swedish-born Kitty Sewell ran an estate agency in the frozen north of Canada before training as a psychotherapist and then a sculptor. Now living in Cardiff with her husband, she writes a popular agony column published in various British newspapers. ICE TRAP is her first novel.

2007-07-22 A real page turner

I was enthralled by this novel. It kept me turning the pages- and guessing until the very end.

A doctor is told that he has fathered twins fifteen years before in Moose Creek, a Canadian town he spent time in. Dadydd is sure that this can't be true, but DNA tests don't lie..... or do they?

The imagery created is beautiful. The characters complex and interesting. There is simply no faulting this novel and I simply couldn't put it down.