In 2008, Tom Lubbach, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. "The Iceberg" is his wife, Marion Coutts, fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two year old son Ev whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing. Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured...