{"product_id":"the-edge-of-solitude-katie-hale","title":"The Edge of Solitude (Katie Hale)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW SCIENTIST \u003c\/i\u003eBEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully written and exquisitely tense'\u003c\/b\u003e C.J. COOKE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterwork of vision and power\u003c\/b\u003e' MANDA SCOTT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lone ship journeys south, heading for the furthest reaches of Antarctica. It belongs to Sky, the billionaire behind a groundbreaking project to salvage the region. On board is disgraced environmental activist Ivy Cunningham, lending her expertise in the hope that it might rescue her reputation - and perhaps even mend her broken relationship with her son.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet, as the ship moves ever deeper into the breathtaking but eerie landscape, Ivy grows increasingly suspicious of her fellow passengers, and starts to question the project's motives.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf she could leave, she would - but she knows there's no way home.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhilarating, terrifying and thought-provoking at once, \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of climate emergency and human fallibility, of the clash of ambition and principle, and of the choices we make when we know that time is running out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased in Cumbria, \u003cb\u003eKatie Hale\u003c\/b\u003e won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eWhite Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e (Nine Arches, 2023). Katie is a former MacDowell Fellow and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Munster Chapbook Prize and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Monster\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2019. She won a Northern Writers' Award for Fiction in 2022 to work on \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@halekatie\n@katiescribbles\nhalekatie.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Print PDF, Englisch, 352 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65777920311645,"sku":"K098093404","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9809340400001A.jpg?v=1788295733","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-edge-of-solitude-katie-hale","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}