A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter #foliosociety A revolution

A revolution

Ten detailed chapters cover everything you need to know throughout your pregnancy and beyond from nutrition

Kew with beautiful artworks and practical advice

Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate

translated by Lucy Scott

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter #foliosociety A revolution'Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights' Sara Wheeler '[An] astonishing, haunting memoir' Isabella Tree The rediscovered classic memoir the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. On