WIDOWS OF THE ICE (PB)

Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson and Lois Evans had little in common except that their husbands had died together in Antarctica, but this shared experience was to shape the rest of their lives. Each had to defend her husband’s legacy and raise fatherless children in the face of financial hardship, public criticism and intense press scrutiny. This is not the story of famous women but of forgotten wives. It is a story of imperialistic dreams, misogyny and class divisions, but also of enormous courage, high ideals, duty, and enduring love.