'Wise, wry, and alive with startling insight' CHELSEA BIEKER

When Frankie Nickel accepts a job on the construction site of an eco-resort just north of Antarctica in an attempt to outrun grief and her war-weary marriage, she doesn't know what to expect.

A lapsed environmentalist and David Attenborough acolyte, she is uneasy about the business of last-chance eco-tourism, but, in order to leave her life behind, she must settle in among the misfits that subantarctic living attracts.

But when a fellow outposter's unexpected pregnancy puts Frankie and her husband in a precarious position, Frankie discovers that the old adage wherever you go, there you are holds true even at the ends of the earth . . .