The Tally Girl of Shackleton Floor

About this book

In 2158 the Moon's oldest settlement is about to unveil a bronze statue of Philippa Wren, the reformer whose Charter ended the Long Dark strike sixty years ago. Before it goes up, a young historian descends to the permanently shadowed crater floor to record the last surviving striker. Tally Ruane is seventy-nine, sharp-tongued, frost-scarred and famous for lying to officials. In 2098 she was the nineteen-year-old tally girl who weighed every block of ice her brother's crew cut, and who noticed that the company's numbers did not add up. Over seven sessions she tells the historian what really happened in the dark: the hunger, the love, the air that stopped, and the ledger everyone fought over. But the historian is Philippa Wren's grandson, and Tally has never told anyone what she did with her book.