Far out at sea, 167 tiny boats form a silent ring around a solitary iceberg. On each boat are a mother and daughter with one simple mission: watch the ice, protect it and survive.

Charlotte, a healer who shelters women fleeing violence and abuse, finds herself at the centre of a world descending into chaos as the Water Wars erupt and the fragile balance between humanity and nature begins to collapse.

Both a gripping dystopian thriller and a powerful meditation on endurance, The Sound of Ice explores themes of female resilience, environmental collapse, exile, trauma and hope. It is the story of women pushed to their limits and the extraordinary lengths they will go to protect one another when the world has failed them.

Megan Choritz combines richly imagined speculative fiction with deeply human storytelling to create a world that feels both extraordinary and unsettlingly familiar.

Powerful, thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, The Sound of Ice asks what it truly means to remain human when everything around us is falling apart. It is a novel that will stay with readers long after the final page. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Megan Choritz is a South African born playwright, writer, actor, director and activist. She has spent all her life involved in making things up and has written numerous plays and musicals. In 2020 her rhyming children’s book The Big Bird Battle(Jonathan Ball) was published. She published her first novel, Lost Property (Melinda Feguson Books) in 2023 to critical acclaim. 

'The Sound of Ice' is published by Melinda Ferguson Books