Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017' Ed O' Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic & the human heart What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers stupendously good' Australian' Vastly entertaining' Sunday Times FROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O'LOUGHLIN THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE'S THE STILL POINT & FRANCIS SPUFFORD'S I MAY BE SOME TIMEIt begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world Fay Morgan & Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik Canada
- 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle
- searching for answers about a family member Nelson for his estranged older brother Fay for her disappeared grandfather They soon learn that these two men have an unexpected link
- a hidden share in one of the greatest enduring mysteries of polar exploration