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Author Paver, Michelle.

Title Dark matter / Michelle Paver
Published London : Orion, 2010

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 W'PONDS  820.92 P3376 A6/D  AVAILABLE
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Description 243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary 'What is it? What does it want? Why is it angry with me?' 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 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 feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114226 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Ghost stories.
Horror fiction.
Reading nook.
Novels.
ISBN 9781409123781 (hbk.)
1409123782 (hbk.)
9781409123798 (paperback)