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To the Bright Edge of the World

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Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sure to appeal to fans of A PLACE CALLED WINTER.

'Stunning and intriguing... the reader finishes it richer and wiser' Rosamund Lupton, author of Sister and The Quality of Silence

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its rich natural resources to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy.

Forrester leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have. Adventurous in spirit, Sophie does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband carves a path through the wilderness. What she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage and fortitude of her that it does of her husband.

(P)2016 Hachette Audio

Critics Review

A clever, ambitious novel
The Sunday Times
A stunning and intriguing novel combining the epic adventurous sweep of Alaska with minutely beautifully observed details - the reader finishes it wiser and richer
Rosamund Lupton
A dazzling depiction of love, endurance, courage and wonder, and a worthy successor to THE SNOW CHILD
Ron Rash
Absorbing... a superior page turner
Daily Mail
Absorbing... their love for each other is beautifully rendered
The Times
If I read another novel this year that I love as much as this I will be entirely surprised. This is a very special book indeed and Eowyn Ivey is an incredibly gifted writer, bringing to us all the wonder, beautiful strangeness and fragility of the Alaska she loves
Kate Atherton
Absorbing and highly imaginative... Ivey, clearly a writer of prodigious talent, effortlessly knits these elements together to create an utterly enchanting read. Part intrepid adventure, part deeply affecting romance, this first-class novel is, at its heart, a love letter to the 'vast and cold beauty' of the last frontier
Daily Express
Enchanting... a fascinating, adventurous tale
Grazia
A rich and involving story of endurance, love and the Alaskan wilderness that captured me from the off
Woman & Home
Charming, whimsical and sometimes heat-breaking
Red
Entrancing... In this splendid adventure novel, Ivey captures Alaska's beauty and brutality, not just preserving history, but keeping it alive
Publisher's Weekly
Ivey's prose glitters...if this one doesn't win her a major award, I'll eat my trapper's hat
The Tablet
Unique... absorbing
Stylist (Book Wars Winner)
Beautifully lyrical
Sunday Express
The precision of such descriptions of the natural world ground the novel in a gritty verisimilitude that then allows Ivey to build a fanciful, daring imaginative edifice: the meticulous realism of the foundation allows the fabulous elements of her fiction to soar
Guardian
Author Eowyn Ivey
Narrator Christine Lakin, John Glouchevich, Kiff Vandenheuvel
Duration 13 hours and 26 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781472208644
Format Audiobook
Publisher Headline
Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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