LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
This is terrific, there is no other word for it, an epic love story and romantic adventure set in a breathtaking location – the Antarctic. I know that Rosie went there while researching this, I heard her give a talk about it and my goodness it shows.
Comparison: Anita Shreve, Joanna Trollope, Douglas Kennedy.
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Sun at Midnight Synopsis
Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation and proof. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable.
Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica.
James Rooker is a man on the run. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Now, there is nowhere further to go. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.
Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever … if she survives.
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9780007173525 |
Publication date: |
30th April 2005 |
Author: |
Rosie Thomas |
Publisher: |
Harpercollins Publishers |
Format: |
Paperback |
Pagination: |
488 pages |
Primary Genre |
Romance / Relationship Stories
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Press Reviews
Rosie Thomas Press Reviews
‘This is an epic love story set against breathtaking descriptions of Antarctic waste.’ Woman and Home
'Gripping romance.' Eve
'The majesty and hostility of the landscape leap off the page.' Daily Mail
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About Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers The Kashmir Shawl, Sun at Midnight, Iris and Ruby and Constance. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.
Author photo © Sven Arnstein
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