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Harry was miles away, sitting in a pub in London waiting for Verity. But she never showed up because while Harry was waiting for her, she was falling off the cliffs at Beachy Head. When he hears the news he rushes to her side, still hoping that she is not seriously injured. What he finds when he arrives at the hospital is a broken, battered shell of a woman, in a seemingly permanent coma. The police are treating this as an attempted suicide but Harry is positive that Verity would never take her own life. He insists she was happy and besides, she would never go to Beachy Head; she thought it was too unfashionable! While a successful photographer, Harry does not have much of a life. His two best friends are Verity and Adam, both childhood friends. When Verity moved in next door to him when he was 13, Harry quickly became obsessed with her and that obsession never wavered. Unhappy as the new kid on the block, Harry and his mother were adjusting to life without his father and without his father's income. Their pleasant happy life in Oxford changed drastically when they moved to a relatively shabby neighborhood. But soon he meets the girl next door and later the two of them start to hang out with Adam, who is a year older than Harry. Together with, Sam, Verity's partner in their fashion design business, Harry attempts to unravel the mystery of Verity's last few weeks. Adam, too, rushes to help and even takes time off from his busy legal practice to assist. They are determined to prove that she wouldn't kill herself. When Verity's apartment is burglarized, Harry tries to get the police to admit someone could have pushed her, but they put the burglary down to someone taking advantage of an empty flat. Frozen not only describes Verity's condition but also describes Harry's life. Forever stuck in the one summer when he and Verity were inseparable, Harry's life has pretty much passed him by while he patiently takes the crumbs that Verity is willing to throw his way. As the book progresses, through the use of flashbacks, we learn much about that summer, about Verity and Adam. Harry surprises himself, and the reader, by his tenacity in sticking to his determination to find out what really happened to Verity on the cliffs that day. When the truth finally does come out it is a shocker. The author has written a compelling story of love and betrayal that will stay with the reader long after the last pages.
Reviewed by Lorraine Gelly, February 2004
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