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 Sun at Midnight - Rosie Thomas
Newest Review: ... although to me, this is where the research stopped, and in any case in a work of fiction was less important to me than ... more  ... getting the balance of characterizations right. Let's face it, how many readers would note inaccuracies about a polar station or the atmosphere of it ? Taking this premise a step further, what I believe readers would find difficult to associate with is the way in which the characters in the book interacted and reacted, and I was left with the impression that what the writer needed to research more than the Polar region in which the story is based, is honest human emotion, and here she failed miserably.
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Sun at Midnight - Rosie Thomas: LIFE WITH THE PENGUINS. (888 words)
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“Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love” This was the quote that greeted me within the first page of her book and was made by the Sunday Times, although Cosmopolitan and the Mail on Sunday were less wordy in their assessment of her abilities. I started reading the book with an open mind. It is a story that centers around two main characters, Alice Peel, and a man called Rooker, both finding themselves part of an expedition to the Antarctic, both for different reasons and both having circumstances that pursuaded them to take the decision to go there. The story is about a ... Read the complete review
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