A Map Of Glass By Jane Urquhart
Bloomsbury, £7.99

A TENDER and haunting story of love, loss and memories set mostly on an island in Canada's Lake Ontario.

A young artist discovers the body of a man frozen in ice and, a year later, the dead man's lover enters his life.

She is desperate to tell of her childhood, then her love affair, and helps the young artist come to terms with his own past through her evocative stories of harsh life in the Canadian wilderness.

Urquhart is remarkably adept at capturing the detail and pace of rural life. And it's easy to get drawn into that world.

The author is best known in Britain for the 2001 Booker longlisted The Stone Carvers.