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All the White Spaces

di Ally Wilkes

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"Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and have the adventures he has always been denied. When disaster strikes in Antarctica's frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, the expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them. In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape...As the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off one by one. It is up to Jonathan to overcome his own ghosts before he and the expedition are utterly destroyed"--… (altro)
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Guilt, grief and ghosts in the deepest, darkest corner of Antarctica.

The great war is over and humanity is reckoning with the fallout. A small crew of men, all feeling its impact in some way or another, set out on an expedition to the last uncharted space on the planet, to reclaim some mastery over their destinies.

I don't think selling this as a ghost story does it a lot of favours. For sure there's something otherworldly lurking in the shadows, but it's a very slow burn and the supernatural element is kept very much in the background for at least the first half. It's well written and it kept me engaged throughout but I spent a lot of those early pages waiting for something to go bump in the night.

The focus instead is on the other two Gs - guilt and grief. Secrets are being kept and the repercussions are felt as the crew find themselves stranded and having to face the hardships of the Antarctic winter, and camaraderie gives way to fear and despair. ( )
  0ldScratch | Feb 7, 2024 |
Reminded me quite a bit of Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. ( )
  lyrrael | Aug 3, 2023 |
A book that checks a lot of boxes for readers of several genres undermined by poor editing and redundancy. There are just so many doomed search parties and overuse of words like "hissed" and "balled into" that the narrative can sustain without weakening an otherwise good story. ( )
  Lemeritus | Jan 10, 2023 |
This book was weird. Part historical fiction part ghost story. At times found it intriguing and at times found it really unpolished. The copy I read was an ARC so maybe once the editing was done this would be a better story. ( )
  LittleSpeck | May 17, 2022 |
The best parts of ALL THE WHITE SPACES are toward the end, the gripping final battle between humans and evil spirits in an environment where survival is already a life-or-death struggle. In the process, two deeply rooted secrets --- the reasons for Harry’s unquiet psyche and a big reveal about Tarlington’s background --- come to light. More important, Jo begins to recognize his own strength and bravery. He no longer has to imitate his brothers. He has become his own man.
 
Wilkes’s debut distills 50 years of 19th-century adventure fiction—think Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness—through the cataclysm of WWI, yielding a gripping narrative that is at once explorer’s yarn, trans man’s coming-of-age story, and a tale of a survivor grappling with horrors that defy definition....The story’s heart, however, beats strongly throughout. Fans of historical horror will be enthralled.
aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaPublishers Weekly (Oct 28, 2021)
 

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Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are actuated simply by a love of adventure, some have the keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others again are drawn away from the trodden paths by the "lure of little voices," the mysterious fascination of the unknown -Ernest Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic
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And Clarke. He’d shoot a ghost—to show it he didn’t believe in it. I don’t wish for what’s past.
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"Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and have the adventures he has always been denied. When disaster strikes in Antarctica's frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, the expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them. In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape...As the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off one by one. It is up to Jonathan to overcome his own ghosts before he and the expedition are utterly destroyed"--

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