When Guy Edwardes returns from a single-handed yachting voyage to the Arctic he is a changed man. Then tragedy strikes, provoking his long time partner Karen and a friend, Nick Allan, to find out what had happened to him 'up there'. What they eventually discover is the core of this story, the story of a man's soul stripped bare. This 'recollection' by Allan is an attempt to piece together a chain of events and make sense of Edwardes' conduct. But in doing so Allan gives us a powerful evocation of a voyage to the icy waters of the Svalbard archipelago, a yarn of friendship and of human endeavour. Touching on elements familiar to his readers, Richard Woodman once again conjures credible human characters in a novel of unusual power, mirroring in the fate of a single man the obscured plight of many more.
- ISBN10 072785920X
- ISBN13 9780727859204
- Publish Date 30 May 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English