In the novel The Thin Ice, author Lena Einhorn tackles her own story, and the power of love. She wrote the novel many years ago, but it was only now that she felt ready to publish it, she says.

- Some writers devote their entire writing to their own history. I haven't done that, but sooner or later you end up there, says Lena Einhorn.

Hear Lena Einhorn read an excerpt from her book in the clip above.