- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (3 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000720373X
- ISBN-13: 978-0007796557
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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‘This is an epic love story set against breathtaking descriptions of Antarctic waste.’ Woman and Home
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, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests.’ Mail on Sunday
‘A master storyteller.’ Cosmopolitan
‘A story full of passion… will keep you reading long after bedtime.’ New Woman
‘Thomas’s novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat.’ Marie Claire
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An epic love story and adventure set against the harsh, beautiful background of Antarctica.
Alice is a scientist: she relies on method, precision, proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, tied to Oxford by her work, it is time to break away. Alice's mother, Margaret Mather, is famous as an adventuring anthropologist, one of the first women in Antarctica many years before. Alice accepts an invitation to go in Margaret's place to the southernmost point of the earth, and stay there for months, away from the world that has let her down. Little does she expect the strangeness of a place coloured blue and white, lit by an unearthly permanent sunlight. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman. A base where tensions run high, where the hostile environment traps them, and where the distance means no-one has a past. Where she feels such a strong attraction to a man with danger in his face that she cannot speak to him. And where she discovers something else that will change her life forever … if she survives.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sun at Midnight tells the story of Alice, a scientist whose mother was renowned for her groundbreaking work in Antarctica. When Alice gets the chance to work there for 6 months she is unsure, but circumstances make her take the opportunity. When she arrives there the beauty and isolation of the deserted continent grabs her and she falls hopelessly in love with Antarctica. She becomes absorbed in her research and as the months progress a close bond develops between her and her colleagues. But Alice is keeping a secret from them, something which no one in the world knows but her and soon this secret will have to be revealed.
I have a particular interest in Antarctica after reading 'The Worst Journey in the World' by Apsley Cherry-Garrard which is a fantastic account of Scott's last expedition and is the main reason I was drawn to this book. Although this is a work of fiction Thomas still creates an extremely accurate depiction of Antarctica. (She actually spent time there to research this book and it certainly shows). Her writing portrays an image of a place so unbelievably harsh and isolated that it makes the reader appreciate even more so the difficulties that those early explorers experienced. The wonderfully vivid descriptions of this dramatic continent perfectly captured both its danger and beauty, and juxtaposed with this was an intensely gripping story which literally kept me awake half the night as I frantically turned the pages. Absorbing, interesting and well researched. Highly recommended.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is probably the best book I have ever read. The author writes in such a way that you feel you are living the experience, Set mainly in Antactica the book follows the story of Alice Peel and James Rooker, a romance with gripping lines that keep you on the edge of your seat with every twist and turn. The description of the wild and barron Antactic landscape are so vivid you feel you are there along with the rest of the characters included in this wonderful book. I had great difficulty putting it down and was truely disappointed when I came to the end. This is the first Rosie Thomas book I have read but I guarantee it won't be the last!
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read this book over 4 or 5 days, if I had had the time I would have finished it in one sitting, I didn't want to put it down! It has romance and adventure and the descriptions of the snow, ice and light are so vivid you almost feel as if you are there. If you are already a fan of Rosie Thomas and you have read "white", and "all my sins remembered", and enjoyed them, then you will love this. If you have never read any of her previous books and you are looking for a good solid read, that isn't just romance, then try this - I don't think you will be disappointed!
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Really enjoyable read
I've liked other Rosie Thomas books so thought I'd give this one a try despite being a bit unsure I'd enjoy the whole Antarctic adventure part. I did - I loved it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cobblers
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Like all of Rosie Thomas stories I enjoyed it.However it would be good to have brief details as to what the story is about, because on starting it I realised I had read it before! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jean Mary
New to Rosie Thomas
I really enjoyed this book. I couldn't put it down and lead to some very late nights. I've never read a book set at the end of the earth like this. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Emma E
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Sun at Midnight
I bought this on the basis of the good reviews and because I'd enjoyed the Kashmir Shawl so much. Read more
I bought this on the basis of the good reviews and because I'd enjoyed the Kashmir Shawl so much. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Southernflower
Excellent
Having no previous interest in cold places as I was dubious I would like this books setting but was pleasantly surprised. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Watson-neath
Sun at Midnight
The sort of read I love. A well written adventure/love story with a difference.
One of those books you daren't put down until the exciting end of the story. Read more
One of those books you daren't put down until the exciting end of the story. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rainbow Showers
Recommended!
A brilliant book: it is a little slow to get into: nearly gave up but stick with it as it builds to a dramatic climax. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Linda UK
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After reading a previous review I could'nt wait to receive the book and I was'nt disappointed, it held me spellbound until the very end but I did not want it to end and I wish... Read more
Published 21 months ago by April
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It would have been a 5 star if more attention had been given to life on a research station in Antartica. Read more
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This is definitely the best Rosie Thomas I have read to date. I have a somewhat ambiguous relationship with this writer; "The Potter's House" was a brilliant conceit, but the... Read more
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