Whiteout

Lost in Antarctica... How long can she survive?

Expedition day: 152
Temperature: -69°C
Location: Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Deep field.
Situation: Bleak.

My name is Rachael, and I’m on a solo Antarctic expedition. But a month ago I lost contact with basecamp. No radio. No sat phones. Just static. Only one thing has reached me: a BBC World Service broadcast, reporting a nuclear strike on the UK.

I’m safe for 14 more days in my little hut at the bottom of the world. But I can’t stay here forever, I have to find out what’s happened. Even if there’s no one left to tell.

R.S. Burnett grew up in the Falkland Islands and began his writing career with the Islands’ weekly newspaper, Penguin News. After moving to London and spending over a decade working for the Daily Mirror and in Formula 1, Burnett is now a freelance journalist and lives once again in the Falklands. Whiteout is his first novel.

• By R.S. Burnett
• Paperback
• 288 pages