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Title: Sun at Midnight
Author: Rosie Thomas
Narrator: Josie Lawrence
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-28-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica.
Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time.
In her 30s, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before. 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.
Little does she expect the strangeness of a place coloured blue and white, lit by an unearthly permanent sunlight. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman. A base where tensions run high, where the hostile environment traps them and where the distance means no one has a past. Where she feels such a strong attraction to a man with danger in his face that she cannot speak to him. And where she discovers something else that will change her life forever - if she survives.
Critic Reviews:
Praise for Rosie Thomas: "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love." (The Times)
"Honest and absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests." (Mail on Sunday)
"Thomas's novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat." (Marie Claire)
Members Reviews:
review of sun at mignight
The author has a gift for evocative language. The descriptions of Antarctica were very effective in conveying both a sense of the alien landscape and also experience of it described very authenticall and vividly. Characters were well developed. I found the descriptions of the geology were interesting and well integrated in the story. Images created e.g. of the difficulties of flying a helicopter, felt real and, regardles of the storyline, were absorbing. I enjoyed the book. It would make a good movie?!
Book Club selection
This book was chosen for my Book Club. I probably would not have picked it up to read. Glad I did although it was a little slow in parts. I might have liked a little more character development.
Very enjoyable and interesting read. Story complex enough and ...
Very enjoyable and interesting read. Story complex enough and interesting development of characters. VEry graphic descriptions of Antartica - as if we were there. Could really feel with the characters especially Alice as she went out of her comfort zone and pushed her limits.
Surprising story set in the Antarctic
Somehow this book manages to convey the sense of bleakness as well as the grandeur of the Antarctic stations. The isolation, the danger constantly lived with, the human struggles. In the midst of this backdrop are a group of people whom you son become involved with. The crises gradually build, then escalate so much that you can't put the book down. Very exciting story.
Another good read by Rosie Thomas
Interesting setting and reference to NZ. Sensitive portrayal of what can happen when a group of people are forced together in a restricted environment. Enjoyed.
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Title: Sun at Midnight
Author: Rosie Thomas
Narrator: Josie Lawrence
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-28-16
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica.
Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time.
In her 30s, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before. 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.
Little does she expect the strangeness of a place coloured blue and white, lit by an unearthly permanent sunlight. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman. A base where tensions run high, where the hostile environment traps them and where the distance means no one has a past. Where she feels such a strong attraction to a man with danger in his face that she cannot speak to him. And where she discovers something else that will change her life forever - if she survives.
Critic Reviews:
Praise for Rosie Thomas: "Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love." (The Times)
"Honest and absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests." (Mail on Sunday)
"Thomas's novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat." (Marie Claire)
Members Reviews:
review of sun at mignight
The author has a gift for evocative language. The descriptions of Antarctica were very effective in conveying both a sense of the alien landscape and also experience of it described very authenticall and vividly. Characters were well developed. I found the descriptions of the geology were interesting and well integrated in the story. Images created e.g. of the difficulties of flying a helicopter, felt real and, regardles of the storyline, were absorbing. I enjoyed the book. It would make a good movie?!
Book Club selection
This book was chosen for my Book Club. I probably would not have picked it up to read. Glad I did although it was a little slow in parts. I might have liked a little more character development.
Very enjoyable and interesting read. Story complex enough and ...
Very enjoyable and interesting read. Story complex enough and interesting development of characters. VEry graphic descriptions of Antartica - as if we were there. Could really feel with the characters especially Alice as she went out of her comfort zone and pushed her limits.
Surprising story set in the Antarctic
Somehow this book manages to convey the sense of bleakness as well as the grandeur of the Antarctic stations. The isolation, the danger constantly lived with, the human struggles. In the midst of this backdrop are a group of people whom you son become involved with. The crises gradually build, then escalate so much that you can't put the book down. Very exciting story.
Another good read by Rosie Thomas
Interesting setting and reference to NZ. Sensitive portrayal of what can happen when a group of people are forced together in a restricted environment. Enjoyed.