All the White Spaces
Book Feature - All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
HBL Note: If you’re a fan of Dan Simmons’s The Terror and Alma Katsu’s The Hunger, then I have a debut novelist I think you’re going to love. Let me introduce you to Ally Wilkes and her debut historical horror, ALL THE WHITE SPACES. The first sentence of Ally’s bio made me laugh, but also made me think this book might be really creepy. It reads, “Ally Wilkes grew up in a succession of isolated—possibly haunted—country houses and boarding schools.” The story takes places just after WWI on an Antarctic expedition. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
Book Feature - All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
From the publisher:
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 of his hero, the world-famous explorer James “Australis” Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self—and true gender—and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.
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, Randall’s 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.
Book Feature - All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
