His Coldest WinterA major new novel from the critically acclaimed author of IF THE INVADER COMES. On Boxing Day 1962 it began to snow. Over the next two months England froze. It was the coldest winter since 1740. The sea iced over. Cars could be driven across the Thames. Riding home from London in that first snowfall, on the powerful motorbike he has been given for Christmas, seventeen year old Alan Rae has a brush with death. Immediately he meets a girl, Cynthia, who