'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul…a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vivid description of the natural world. While Diski's writing is laconic, her images are haunting.'
Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday
- 'Jenny Diski's new book has the gripping dream-like logic of a fairy story … Even better, it's a true story … I savoured her clarity, the clipped, astringent truthfulness of her prose, the ice-and-lemon of her universal agnosticism.' Maggie Gee, Literary Review
- 'This is her best and most moving book to date … sassy and vulnerable … Diski puts all her novelistic skills at the service of discovering and arranging autobiographical truth.' Michele Roberts, The Times
Paperback:
£8.99
Published 20/01/2005
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