Not to Fall on IceAuthor(s): Elizabeth Silva\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Troubador Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Troubador Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781836282792, 978-1836282792\nSynopsis\nWhen Isabel Mendes left Brazil for London the dictatorship under which she had grown up was coming to an end. Instead, she arrived during Thatchers crushing of the miners strike, resonating with repressions left behind. Engaged in new work and a different culture she changed. Choices arose which distanced her from her origins in ways she never expected. Intellectually and love hungry, she became the partner of a high-flying academic, leading to a shared life in the United States, where they had a daughter, and later in England to where they returned.\nNow, Isabel is retired. She has had an academic career. Her mother is dying. She has never wanted to erase her Brazilian family from her life, but her four siblings act as though she has cut ties with them and their history. As her mother dies a.