![]() Not only was the setting beautiful but it was also stark and lonely. The author gives wonderful descriptions of the landscape and the ice and it almost makes the reader feel chilly even when read on a hot day. This is first book that I've ever read about Antarctica and the setting was absolutely beautiful. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica. Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. ![]() Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable. ![]() But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica. ![]()
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