Sun at Midnight

Sun at Midnight
Rosie Thomas

An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation and proof. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable.Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica.James Rooker is a man on the run. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Now, there is nowhere further to go. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever … if she survives.

Sun at Midnight

Rosie Thomas

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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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.’

Mail on Sunday

‘A master storyteller.’

Cosmopolitan

‘Thomas’s novels are beautifully written.’

Marie Claire

‘Terrific…a real weepy.’

Sunday Times

‘A story full of passion…will keep you reading long after bedtime.’

New Woman

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For the members of the XIth Bulgaria Antarctic Expedition – Christo, Dimo, Dany, Elmira, Koko, Milcho, Murphy, Niki, Roumi, Stanko and Valentin – with love and grateful thanks.

‘always on our team’

Contents

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Title Page (#u2b404170-a2be-5f56-aad6-3ac6f15f77ed)

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CHAPTER ONE (#uc344d151-4682-5685-99e2-d5384ee0289a)

CHAPTER TWO (#u7e90b04c-5da6-5552-a4c1-16107e4e6138)

CHAPTER THREE (#ue1fadf2a-677a-549e-bd3b-07a57ee2aa21)

CHAPTER FOUR (#u843e711f-c336-56b5-a7b2-8c4adc50f052)

CHAPTER FIVE (#u7ffe1cab-8e5f-5791-87a5-92f7431ded78)

CHAPTER SIX (#ue7958157-fcd1-5eee-9917-d9ef7cbb653e)

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