Author: michellepaver

A Times Best Book of 2019! In a remote Suffolk manor house, young Maud discovers a medieval artifact that rewrites the course of her life. “A ghost story to put beside the classics of an earlier era… Compelling” (Evening Standard).

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the … the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack…