Douglas Hurd THE SHAPE OF ICE Signed First Edition

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Douglas Hurd THE SHAPE OF ICE Signed First Edition

First UK edition, first print hardback of THE SHAPE OF ICE by Douglas Hurd, published by Little, Brown and Company, London, in 1998. Signed and dated by the author on the title page.

The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine) with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (minor creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.

"A year on from Tony Blair's crushing defeat at the General Election, the Conservative government cruises into the new parliamentary session with a comfortable lead in the opinion polls. As tolerable inflation and low unemployment work their soothing magic, Britain drifts into political slumber.

For Prime Minister Simon Russell, however, returning to Westminster after a serious heart attack, it is no time for complacency. Withstanding his wife's pressure to resign, he moves from meeting to meeting, policy committee to party conference with a new anxiety about his collleagues. Should he fear the Chancellor's ruthless efficiency? Should he welcome the Home Secretary's disarming insouciance? Is he becoming too dependent, for emotional support and ideological substance, on the girl who is his press secretary?

Cosseted by civil servants, petitioned by back-benchers and pursued by the tabloids, Russell at first enjoys his own skill in the political arena. The first IRA bomb attack for five years concentrates the government's attention on a consuming issue, and suddenly, irrevocably, the Prime Minister is assualted by crises at home, abroad and in his family life. Events pile up relentlessly. Popular revolutionaries in Russia; corruption in Hong Kong; overcrowded prisons in turmoil - as incidents rise from nowhere, as decisions are hourly demanded, Simon Russell begins a daunting struggle for political and personal survival.

Brilliantly conveying the unrelenting pressure of political existence at the highest level, The Shape of Ice shuttles the reader from routine parliamentary procedure to a media-fuelled international military crisis, from the G8 Summit to the Prime Minister's most private moments, in a novel of stark authenticity and escalating tension."

277 pages.

ISBN: 0 316 64032 8

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