The winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize. The story of Jean McNeil's time as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey and other journeys in cold climates.
Jean McNeil is the author of 13 books including five novels and a collection of short fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Journey Prize, and she has won the Prism International prize for short fiction and narrative nonfiction. Her novel The Dhow House (2017) is also published by ECW; her most recent novel, Fire on the Mountain, was published in 2018. She teaches at the University of East Anglia and lives in London, England.
