The Edge Of Solitude

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**Cumbrian author**

A 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.

And 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. If she could leave, she would – but she knows there’s no way home. Exhilarating, terrifying and thought-provoking at once, The Edge of Solitude 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.

The Author

Based in Cumbria, Katie Hale is the author of two novels: My Name is Monster and The Edge of Solitude which was a New Scientist Book of the Month, and awarded a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction. Katie also won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts, and she is a former MacDowell Fellow, whose work has taken her from Antarctica to the Arctic. She has won the Palette Poetry Prize, the Munster Chapbook Prize, and the Aesthetica Prize, and her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.