The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (AUDIO)

An utterly strange and gripping book. Sym has a man in her life, a companion who loves and guides her all the way to the Antarctic with her uncle (not her actual uncle), only, this companion is Lawrence Oates, known as Titus. The Oates who walked out of Scott's tent on their doomed trek to the South Pole with the immortal words 'I may be gone some time'. The text is peppered with quote and illusions that reveal Sym's deep intelligence, humanity and naivite. From a first person perspective the horror of this tight plot and the closing net around Sym in the white desert is completely compelling.