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The Wager and the Bear

by John Ironmonger - £11.99  Fly on the Wall Press (2025)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781915789341 | ISBN 10: 1915789346

The companion novel to the international best-seller The Whale at the End of the World.
 
When young idealist Tom publicly humiliates politician Monty in a Cornish pub, it sparks a simmering feud that cascades through their intertwined lives. The consequences of their argument, and the deadly wager they strike, will cascade down the decades. Years later, they find themselves a long way from St Piran on a colossal iceberg drifting south away from Greenland, their only companion a starving polar bear.
 
This is a heart-stopping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love, cast against the long unfolding backdrop of an irreversible global crisis.

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