240 pages

English language

Published 2016 by Canongate Books, CANONGATE BOOKS, Canongate.

ISBN:
978-1-78211-717-9
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On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense
  • Antarctica, fiction