Terra Nova

De: Henriette Lazaridis

Narrado por: Shea Taylor, Zehra Jane Naqvi

A haunting story of love, art, and betrayal, set against the heart-pounding backdrop of Antarctic exploration—from the Boston Globe-bestselling author of The Clover House.

The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole. Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both. In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the listener back and forth between the austere, forbidding, yet intoxicating polar landscape of Antarctica to the bustle of early twentieth century London.

Though anxious for both men, Viola has little time to pine. She is photographing hunger strikers in the suffrage movement, capturing the female nude in challenging and politically powerful ways. As she comes into her own as an artist, she's eager for recognition and to fulfill her ambitions. And then the men return, eager to share news of their triumph.

But in her darkroom, Viola discovers a lie. Watts and Heywoud have doctored their photos of the Pole to fake their success. Viola must now decide whether to betray her husband and her lover, or keep their secret and use their fame to help her pursue her artistic ambitions.

Rich and moving, Terra Nova is a novel that to challenges us to consider how love and lies, adventure and art, can intersect.

©2022 Henriette Lazaridis (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks

Exciting story

Really enjoyed the entire story. Great parallel story telling and challenges preconceptions of the time. Also an excellent performance. Beautifully written

No Ice Story Like It

I don't know of any ice trek story that's been written quite like this! Poetic prose. Danger at every turn, even at home. Plot thick with twists and turns. But where Terra Nova really shines is by taking us into the characters' heads deeper than even favorites like INTO THIN AIR and INTO THE WILD. Add in a woman at home coming into her own as a suffragette and numerous twists and turns, and you won't put it down. Finally, the male and female narrators do a tremendous job sweeping you into the British worldview. Loved it.