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Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Since then, Geraldine has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children and has won countless awards including three Whitbread Children’s Book Awards (1987, 1994 and 2004). Geraldine was recently chosen by the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital to write the official sequel to Peter Pan which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2006. |
| Captain Lawrence ‘Titus’ Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Sym’s head. In there, he is her constant companion, her soul mate, her advisor. It is as if he walked out of the Polar blizzard and into her mind. In fact, if it were not for him, life might be as bleak a place as the Antarctic wilderness. Then a short family expedition makes her ask the question she has long been avoiding: is it madness to stake your happiness on someone or something that isn’t there? |
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