SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX JOSEPH KESSEL 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DE LACADMIE FRANAISE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DES BLOGUEURS LITTRAIRES 2019 Chosen as one of French booksellers Top 5 Titles of Autumn 2019 in Livres Hebdo On the mountain, the only monsters are the ones you take with you.
Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, in the summer of 1954, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature a veritable dragon lies deep in an Alpine glacier. And he is determined to find it. But Stan is no mountaineer. To complete his dangerous expedition, he must call on loyal friend Umberto, who arrives with an eccentric young assistant, and expert guide Gio. Time is short: the four men must descend before the weather turns. As bonds are forged and tested, the hazardous quest for the earths lost creatures becomes a journey into Stans own past. Breathless and heartbreaking...the story is thrilling and wrenching by turns...Tracing a treasure that waits just out of reach, A Hundred Million Years and a Day speaks to the adventurers within us all Foreword Reviews Poignant, short but powerful explores ideas of comradeship, the persistence of childhood trauma and the nature of obsession. Sunday Times Brief, unusual, but supremely effectiveexplores the limits of human physical endurance with total conviction. The Tablet This is an unforgettable novel, beautifully written and utterly gripping. Mail on Sunday A sublime and beautiful book Carys Davies, author of West Every line is golden. Its impossible to describe it without selling it short. It is a small, perfect thing, beautiful and devastating Sara Taylor, author of The Shore Spare, elegant and poetic, this slender novel is quietly devastating Daily Mail
