The Weight of Ice: A long-married couple. A remote station. A storm that will expose everything.

By Sally Brooks

They are travelling together. Marcus said so himself - at the departure gate in Munich, without hesitation, without qualification. After sixteen years of marriage, it was simply true.

Whether they are still together in any other sense is a question Elena and Marcus have been carefully not asking.

Elena Voss is one of Europe's leading ice-shelf researchers. The six-week posting to a remote Arctic station was supposed to offer distance - professional purpose, clean cold air, the kind of clarity that comes from removing yourself from ordinary life. Instead it becomes the most intimate six weeks of their marriage.

When Elena's investigation into a colleague's data reveals a falsification that could end a career, the response is swift and absolute. Someone disables the station's heating system. In an Arctic November, with rescue days away, temperature is no longer a metaphor - and the question of who can be trusted becomes inseparable from the question of what they are to each other.

The Weight of Ice is a precise, atmospheric psychological thriller about the cold that settles into a marriage when people stop telling each other the truth - and what survives when everything else is stripped away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWPFT5JB
• ISBN13: 9798255508358
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"