![]() ![]() Rosie Thomas is not only an author but a keen traveller and mountaineer which has provided her with excellent and well researched material for her novels. Nevertheless I enjoyed the rest so much I'd certainly read another book by her. Alice and Rook really deserved something better and more real than this. I'd have given it four stars if it hadn't been for the last two chapters, which seemed to have been written with a Hollywood film deal in mind. ![]() In many ways she reminds me of Maggie O'Farrell, who is also so good at conveying strong emotion. Of course there are parts that are a bit implausible, but I thought she did a good job of making Alice's behaviour and reactions completely believable. The central idea of Alice living through an extreme experience that transforms her outlook on life appealed to me too. All the characters seemed like real individuals, the sort you think about after you've finished the book, wondering what they are doing now. I also liked her set of characters and the claustrophobic tension on the Antarctic base. I really enjoyed this escapist read I got so absorbed in the parts set in Antarctica that at one point I complained that the room was cold even though I was curled up on the sofa next to a blazing fire! Rosie Thomas is so good at conveying a sense of place, and I liked the fact that it was clear that she had been spellbound by Antarctica, Alice's feelings about it a reflection of hers. ![]() I'd never read or even heard of Rosie Thomas before this. ![]()
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