''Thin Ice'' is a 1956 novel by the British writer

Compton Mackenzie Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish independence, Scottish nation ...

.Dooley p.28 It tells the career of a

homosexual Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to peop ...

politician seen through the eyes of his lifelong,

heterosexual Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to ...

friend.

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* David Joseph Dooley. ''Compton Mackenzie''. Twayne Publishers, 1974. 1956 British novels Novels by Compton Mackenzie Novels set in London Novels set in Morocco 1950s LGBT novels British LGBT novels Chatto & Windus books {{1950s-LGBT-novel-stub