{"product_id":"under-a-pole-star-1","title":"Under a Pole Star","description":"Product Description      \nTHE RICHARD \u0026amp; JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK - 'ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I HAVE READ FOR A VERY LONG TIME' RICHARD MADELY\n 'A dazzling tale of romance and survival' (Guardian)\nFollow the path to the freezing north. Follow your ambition. Follow your heartFlora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Circle on her father's whaling ship. Now she is returning to the frozen seas as head of her own expedition of exploration.\nJakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan but his yearning for new horizons leads him to the Arctic as part of a rival expedition. When he and Flora meet there is an instant connection that slowly builds to become an all-consuming love. The affair survives the growing tensions between the two groups. Then, after one last glorious summer on the Greenland coast, Jakob joins his leader on an extended trip into the interior, with devastating results. \nThe stark beauty of the Arctic, where pack ice can crush a ship like an eggshell, and the empty sweep of the tundra, alternately a snow-muffled wasteland and an unexpectedly gentle meadow, are vividly evoked. Against this backdrop Stef Penney weaves an irresistible love story, a compelling look at the dark side of the golden age of exploration, and a mystery that Flora, returning one last time to the North Pole as an old woman, will finally lay to rest.\n      Review      \nPenney works hard to fill her canvas with\ncolour and conviction (\nSunday Times)\n\nA\nterrific and beautifully written yarn that\nwill make readers yearn to travel and fall in love in a cold climate (\nThe Times)\n\nIt is a tribute to Penney's\nsuperlative descriptive skills that the book's erotic charge is so\nstartlingly effective, and that\nher icy landscapes cast such a lasting, almost hallucinatory spell. This combination is the true rocket fuel of\nUnder a Pole Star, and what\nmakes it resonate long after the Snow Queen has divulged her long-held secret (\nGuardian)\n\nCurl up with this\nstunningly evocative tale about an intrepid young female explorer.\nAs immersive as it is mesmerising, this is a novel that you won't ever forget (\nHeat)\n\nThis . . .\npowerful drama is played out against a landscape that dominates [Penney's] imagination (\nDaily Mail)\n\nA beautifully written tale,\nelegant and well-observed, full of\npowerful descriptions of a\ndazzling landscape (\nSunday Express)\n\nThis is\nan epic love story set against the forbidding beauty of snow meadows.\nA perfect winter read (\nRed Magazine)\n\nWhat has marked Penney out from the start is her ability to\nmake her extensive historical research come alive (\nSunday Herald)\n\nA suspenseful epic, offering a leitmotif of constant unease . . . impressive (\nGuardian)\n\nUnquestionably atmospheric, evocative and . . . rewarding (\nIndependent on Sunday)\n\nA tense and delicately written thriller (\nObserver)\n\nA remarkable literary debut . . . brilliantly assured, subtly written (\nScotsman)\n\nPenney's evocation of the frozen lands of northern Canada couldn't ring truer if she'd spent months wandering through the land with nothing but a pack of huskies and a native tracker for company (\nGuardian)\n\nWithin the first fifty pages I was completely in love. It is a testimony to the power of good writing that it can present you with a world that you think you know nothing about, but by the end of [the book] you feel you own it (Armando Iannucci)\n\nThis subtle and superb novel bring the freezing landscape of the Canadian woods to such vivid life that the landscape itself becomes a strong character within the story (\nCrimesquad)\n\nAn absorbing and stylish mystery (\nGlasgow Herald)\n\nA first-rate gripper with a notably sensual and well as psychological understanding of its main characters (\nGlobe and Mail)\n      Book Description      \nAn epic historical novel from the author of the Costa-winning\nThe Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Donna Tartt, Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Perry and Jessie Burton\n      From the Back Cover      \nFlora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Ci","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663072280661,"sku":"9781786481177N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/a293b68e-953a-48f3-90b9-1844c5db155d.jpg?v=1644275036","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/under-a-pole-star-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}