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Radio 2 Book Club – Thin Air

On Monday 17 October, Michelle Paver will be on the Radio 2 Book Club to discuss her chilling ghost story, Thin Air.

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Thin Air

The Himalayas, 1935.

Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.

Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far – and the mountain is not their only foe.

As the wind dies, the dread grows. Mountain sickness. The horrors of extreme altitude. A past that will not stay buried.

And sometimes, the truth does not set you free.

Michelle Paver was born in Malawi to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny Nyasaland Times, and moved to the UK when she was three. She was brought up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a big City law firm. She gave up the City to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer.

She is the author of the brilliantly successful children’s series, The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Dark Matter was her first adult ghost story and arose from her lifelong love of the Arctic, which has taken her to northern Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Spitsbergen. She lives in Wimbledon.

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