''The Ice Twins'' is a 2015

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, written by S. K. Tremayne (a pen name of British author and journalist Sean Thomas). Screenwriter

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has adapted the novel for a film.

Plot

The novel describes the troubled lives of Sarah and Angus Moorcroft who lose one of their young

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daughters in an accident. A year after the tragedy, Angus and Sarah decide to take their surviving twin, Kirstie, to live on a small island off Skye, in

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. Just before the family's move to Scotland, Kirstie claims she is, in fact, her identical twin sister Lydia, supposedly dead.

Reception

The novel was an international bestseller, reaching number 1 on the ''Sunday Times'' list, in the UK; it spent several months on bestseller lists in

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, the

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, and elsewhere.

References

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