This book was bought from a shed full of books that used to be on sale next to the river in Ludham, Norfolk. It is a paperback in good condition.
From the cover:- "Alice Peel's life unfolds slowly in a quiet corner of Oxford in the shadow of her pioneering mother Margaret. Later she joins a small team heading to Antarctica and meets a man who will change her whole life.

Still reading this and enjoying it so will review it later.

REVIEW:-"I had very mixed feelings about this book-it has some gems that I really enjoyed. For example 'Margaret glanced over the top of her bi-focals towards the kitchen, as if this were some hitherto-unexplored wilderness region. It wasn't that it daunted her, more that it didn't offer interesting opportunities. Her lack of culinary ability was legendary'. However the author later came up with a 6 weeks premature baby that slept almost through the night (until 5am) which I thought was highly unlikely. Alice made some very strange and unlikely choices and decisions I felt. The story as a whole was very interesting but at times rather over-dramatic.
At one stage one of the characters "knew" that a lady and her child would be alright because he loved them. If only that were true in real life!
To sum up I would say that this is not one of the author's better novels. It was very slow in places and was also too long."
Reserved as a RABCK and I'll be interested to hear what the next reader thinks of it.

This book will be sent to another bookcrosser who I hope will enjoy it.

This book will be sent to another bookcrosser.

To the finder:-
Welcome to bookcrossing -you have found a travelling book. Please make a journal entry now to say where you found the book in case it has been moved. Then, when you have read it, please come back and make a further entry saying whether or not you enjoyed the book and why. It is now yours to do as you like with it, pass it to a friend or just leave it somewhere different for someone else to find and help it with its' journey. Of course if you can't bear to part with it at the moment then keep it, but please let me know that you have found it. If you join bookcrossing, which is free and spam-free, you can follow the book on its' travels as you will get an email each time it changes hands, but if you prefer to remain anonymous, that's fine too. Please also say what you intend to do with the book next. Thanks for coming onto the site to let me know you have found the book.

I already have books travelling in many countries around the world-a list can be found on my bookcrossing profile.

When re-releasing this book please be aware that airports are not a good place to leave books unless they have a specific book exchange shelf or area, due to security problems, so they may well just be disposed of. Also charity shops may well discard books that have been labelled in any way and they mostly chose only the books in the very best condition
to place on their shelves and discard the rest-so another bad release option.

This book has safely arrived in Hinckley but I don't think its my sort of book so I will probably wild release it at some time or other.

Left on a bench about halfway down the road.

If you've found this book and you're new to this, welcome to bookcrossing! I hope you enjoy looking around the bookcrossing site. If you decide to join bookcrossing (it's free, so no reason not to if you're interested!) please feel free to list me (Tanamo) as the member who referred you. Even if you don't join I'd appreciate it if you'd leave a quick journal note so I can see where the book ended up - you can do it anonymously if you wish.