"A classic, good old fashioned ghost story"
Oh, I never get tired of reading this book. My copy is very well-thumbed and I can’t tell you how many copies I’ve bought for other people and pressed it into their hands. To me, it’s a perfect story with not a wasted word. Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of Jack Miller who is part of an expedition to a remote, uninhabited bay in the frozen north.
The nights of the Arctic Winter are long and harsh and, one by one, Jack’s companions are forced to leave. Finally left by himself as the nights lengthen and his imagination runs riot, Jack feels a creeping unease and wonders if he really is alone. The setting is as chilling as the story and it will have you huddling by your fire while you read. I can’t recommend this enough.
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One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A classic, good old fashioned ghost story set in the Arctic in 1937. Evocative, chilling and superbly unsettling, it tells of a meteorological expedition that goes horribly wrong.
A Richard and Judy Autumn Read 2011.
'What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?' January 1937.
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'What is it? What does it want?
Dark Matter features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Young Adult Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Dark Matter was written by Michelle Paver and published by Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
Dark Matter has 24 pages
