Skating at Greenwich ice rink Sybil has a bad fall, but it seems no harm is done. Sybil works at the Royal Institute of Prehistorical Studies (RIPS), a venerable organisation now fund-raising to avoid closure. When Helen Hansen, famed for her driving ambition, is appointed as the new Head of Trustees, Sybil is dismayed. Relations deteriorate sharply when Helen seduces Sybil's boyfriend. Betrayed and broken-hearted, Sybil becomes obsessed with exposing Helen as a fraud. As her world fractures, it seems that bang on the head might have been serious after all.Offbeat and darkly funny, The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line is about things lost and found. It is also a story about love, grief and forgiveness: letting go and moving on.