The Solitude of Thomas Cave

A compelling story of one man's lone survival against the ravages of nature reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of The Spy Game Robinson Crusoe meets Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow meets Life of Pi Shortlisted for the Jelf Group First Novel Award 2007 and the Waverton Good Read Award 2008, The Solitude of Thomas Cave attracted fans across the book trade and in the press; in its new livery it should reach out to reading public waiting to discover it

August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager to remain here, alone, until the next season. Cave pits himself against blizzards, avalanches, bears - and his own demons. His past returns to him: the woman he had loved.August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager to remain here, alone, until the next season. No man has yet been known to survive a winter this far north. As the light recedes and the ice begins to close in, Cave pits himself against blizzards, avalanches, bears - and his own demons. For in this wilderness that is without human history his past returns to him: the woman he had loved, the grief that drove him to the ice.