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‘A powerful and subtle writer…a remarkable novel’ Spectator
‘Chilling and tragic’ Ruth Rendell
In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole.
As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart – to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer. The quest for adventure has become a quest for justice.
‘Chilling and tragic’ Ruth Rendell
In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole.
As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart – to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer. The quest for adventure has become a quest for justice.
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Reviews
His story is tightly reined: terse, ironic, reflective. His depiction of Edwardian innocence and stuffiness crashing against the Antarctic void is superb
The solution is as astonishing as it is inevitable, the denouement chilling and tragic
The period gives this book its strength and character . . . altogether an admirable accomplishment
The absolute dark, absolute cold of the Antarctic is skilfully evoked
A powerful and subtle writer . . . a remarkable novel
I was riveted by this tale of a man fighting the elements and his fellow explorers
Highly original and deeply moving