Katherine Macinnes – Snow Widows

With unprecedented access to family archives, Snow Widows  is the story of the race for the South Pole from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it. 

Robert Falcon Scott and the men of his polar expedition were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the empire they served. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. 

Katherine MacInnes vividly depicts the lives, loves and losses of five women forced into the public eye by tragedy and shaped by the unrelenting culture of empire: Kathleen Scott, the fierce young wife of the expedition leader, Oriana Wilson, ‘Empire’ Emily Bowers, Lois Evans, and the indomitable Caroline Oates, who was the very picture of decorum and everything an Edwardian woman aspired to be.  

Snow Widows offers a fresh perspective to a familiar story, and a fascinating window onto a lost world. 

Katherine MacInnes has been an arts journalist and commissioning editor. She is a regular on local BBC Radio and her journalism has appeared widely, including in the Times, Telegraph and Country Life.  She lives in Gloucestershire with her family. 

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