After meeting Jack they invite him to join them and it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime, as well as taking Jack away from his repetitive and uninteresting existence.
He meets a group of upper class Oxbridge-educated young men who are setting up a year-long expedition to the Arctic and are seeking a wireless operator. Set in 1937, the book’s narrator is Jack Miller, an educated but lower class civil servant who is bored with his job and rather bitter about his situation in life. Algie’s reply is cool he seems somewhat affronted by the suggestion that the events of the Arctic expedition were a result of a ‘phobic disorder’ and writes that, since one of his friend’s died and the other was deeply damaged by the experience, he therefore does not wish to be reminded of it. The book has a tantalising opening it is a letter from one Algernon Carlisle (‘Algie’) in response to an enquiry from a Dr Murchison, who is researching ‘phobic disorders’, applying for information on an Arctic expedition he was part of. She mostly writes stories for young people and this novel was one of her early ventures into writing for adults, although I am loathe to make that distinction. There were quite a few that I fancied, including many classics that I have long wanted to get around to, but I liked the sound of this one and Paver is an author I have always wanted to try, having read some great reviews of her work. Urn:lcp:darkmatter0000pave_p2x3:epub:ac7b0bea-b990-4cb4-95cf-3a5ef44ff680 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier darkmatter0000pave_p2x3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s235q1wdfqw Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780753188095Ġ753188082 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000558 Page_number_confidence 91.07 Pages 226 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220303125245 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 456 Scandate 20220222214117 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780753188088 Tts_version 4.I chose this book for October in my Reading Challenge, the theme for which was a ghost story. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:07:47 Boxid IA40221024 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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