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Do opposites attract?
Marvin is seventeen, Black and neurodiverse, from inner-city Manchester. He was bullied at school because he prefers classical music to rap, and reading to football.
Scarlet is white and eighteen. She became deaf from meningitis at her wealthy Brighton boarding school. She is grieving for her lost hearing and struggling to regain her self-esteem.
They win places on the Antarctica Science for All expedition to explore Lake Lovelace in remote West Antarctica. In this arduous environment they learn to support each other, moving from friendship to comfort and to love.
Then a solar flare destroys radio and satellite communications, leaving them alone and stuck in the icy wastes of Antarctica, the nearest human is over a thousand miles away.
And in the dark of the subglacial lake, three miles in the ice beneath their feet, what lies in wait?
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