![]() In 1939 she adopted the name Anna Kavan, both for writing and as her legal name, and this was the given name of one of her earlier characters. ![]() ![]() Kavan had an unconventional life born in France as Helen Woods, she initially published under her married name, Helen Ferguson, and her early fictions were more conventionally written. Kavan and her work have tended to slip in and out of focus since then, but the recent issuing of her seminal novel as a Penguin Modern Classic in the UK, a Penguin Classic in the US and a Cased Classic from Peter Owen, all at the same time, has thrown the spotlight back onto them. My initial encounter with it was in a striking Picador edition from 1973, which I picked up in the early 1980s and still have on my shelves, although the pages are now browning and fragile. Ice has come a long way since its first publication by its champion, Peter Owen, in 1968. ![]()
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