In Ascension, Martin MacInnes literary fiction [the foreigners] seem intractable

[the foreigners] seem intractable

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In Ascension, Martin MacInnes literary fiction [the foreigners] seem intractableLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our