Aoife Clifford

But

The disappearance allows us into the peninsula and into this world.

So it's kind of, it opens up the door and we see, we step through.

So it's not the central, we're not talking really about a plot that needs to be fitted together and to be solved.

It does do that in some ways later on in the book, but I don't think that it's its main concern.

It wants to explore this world.

I mean, and what an amazing world it is.

It's a

amazing geographical world, as you mentioned before, it's got volcanoes, it's got ocean, it's got the tundra, it's got mountains.

It's incredibly isolated.

And then it also has this amazing backdrop to the politics of it.

It was closed until the USSR fell.

It now is embracing, having to embrace tourists for the first time.

Japanese tourists are coming north with their money and that's causing issues and opportunities.

It's allowing the Indigenous people who

in the Soviet era were essentially had to keep to their villages to come down and explore.

And we're starting to see, for example, nomadic reindeer families who their children are now going to university for the first time.

The nomadic reindeer's children are going to... Oh, the tribe, sorry.

The herders.

Yeah, absolutely.