ASIN: B00KTN826W
Publisher: Hen Pheasant Press
Pages: 43
Philippa is trapped in a broken-down car, in the car park of an isolated railway station. It is dark, and a blizzard rages around her; to make matters worse she has lost her mobile phone and cannot call for help. Fearing a slow death from hypothermia, she must struggle to keep herself awake until morning.
Finding an old copy of Andersen's The Snow Queen in the station waiting room, she returns to her rapidly-cooling car. Huddled in a duvet, by the weird orange light of the one and only street lamp, she begins to read. At first she concentrates on analysing The Snow Queen and its author in an academic way, but discovers she rather dislikes them both. Bored, cold and sleepy, her thoughts begin to drift, firstly to other books and poems she has read and then to relive a long-dead love affair and its shocking aftermath. Finally, the child Philippa begins to speak.
'It's a round, foolish ...
