Shiver : A Novel

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"I can catalogue Antarctica by touch. The touch of air sucked dry on my cheek the fur of a day-old seal pup the touch of an iceberg a blizzard a lover the touch of sweat at minus twenty-three of a camera stuck to the skin on my face of cold like glass cutting into my skin of a snowflake of a dead man of a doctors fingers on my inner thigh of a tongue on my eye."Shiver is Nikki Gemmells first novel.It is the story of Fin a young woman who gets the chance of a lifetime to go to Antarctica.Surrounded by the cruel beauty of the last great wilderness on earth she finds herself transfixed by the power of the land.Travelling and living with a close-knit and idiosyncratic team Fin learns the rules and taboos of community life in Antarctica and then promptly breaks the strictest taboo of all - she falls in love. The consequences are shattering.Lyrical haunting and sometimes painfully moving Shiver is a first novel of great power and beauty.