The Edge of Solitude

Katie Hale

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781805301691
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837261475
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF 2024

'Beautifully written and exquisitely tense' C.J. COOKE
'A masterwork of vision and power' MANDA SCOTT

A lone ship journeys south, heading for the furthest reaches of Antarctica. It belongs to Sky, the billionaire behind a groundbreaking project to salvage the region. On board is disgraced environmental activist Ivy Cunningham, lending her expertise in the hope that it might rescue her reputation – and perhaps even mend her broken relationship with her son.

And yet, as the ship moves ever deeper into the breathtaking but eerie landscape, Ivy grows increasingly suspicious of her fellow passengers, and starts to question the project's motives.

If she could leave, she would – but she knows there's no way home.

Exhilarating, terrifying and thought-provoking at once, The Edge of Solitude is a story of climate emergency and human fallibility, of the clash of ambition and principle, and of the choices we make when we know that time is running out.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Also by Katie Hale
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• The Beagle Channel
• Let’s Start with Bree
• Below Fifty, There Is No God
• Alright – Let’s Start with the Expedition
• The Art of the Guilting
• Antarctica
• What the Sea Gives Back
• Art/Artifice
• The Same Memories on Repeat
• Katabatic – Meaning, A Stepping Down
• Storm
• How to Paint Ice
• You Are No Longer Lucky
• The Other Photo
• Plan B
• Helsinki
• The Problem of the Chillers
• Learned Behaviour
• Did You Hear the One about the Silence?
• Sorry, The Mailbox You’re Attempting to Reach is Full
• I Step Out
• Break
• Look Forward/Look Up
• Wild Abandon
• Sharma
• Frisco
• The End of the World/the Beginning of Everything
• Acknowledgements