![]() ![]() And where she discovers something else that will change her life forever. ![]() Where she feels such a strong attraction to a man with danger in his face that she cannot speak to him. A base where tensions run high, where the hostile environment traps them, and where the distance means no-one has a past. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman. Little does she expect the strangeness of a place coloured blue and white, lit by an unearthly permanent sunlight. Alice accepts an invitation to go in Margaret's place to the southernmost point of the earth, and stay there for months, away from the world that has let her down. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before. In her thirties, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. ![]() ![]() 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 harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica. An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica. ![]()
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