A cache of letters and notes discovered in an old escritoire reveals a late life love that struggles against the odds, and leads to a mystery with a life-changing resolution.
REVIEWS
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I have dozens of books about Himalayan climbing and this is one of the best I’ve read. I can’t understand why it isn’t more widely known and appreciated...It has everything I could want in a book about climbing in the Himalayas
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This is a beguiling story. The set up, how it builds, the ending, but mostly the way you have of twisting the words around in a phrase. You have a truly unique talent. Please write more. I want to read it all.
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Not a pleasant story by any means, but well-written and grimly interesting. The unspeakable cruelty of man to fellow man is related unflinchingly but with a certain sympathy and even empathy.
BIO
Lyle Closs grew up in Tasmania and started writing in his teens. He was a leading Australian rock-climber in the early 1970s and wrote climbing articles and non-climbing short stories before moving on to writing fiction and non-fiction books.
He worked as a journalist and PR for the next few decades, first in Sydney and later in Singapore and London where he now lives. Lyle's writing covers historical fiction, non-fiction and Western fiction but his most recent work focuses on sci-fi and literary fiction.
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