So when I knew Thin Air was on the way I could not of been more excited. She just builds suspense so masterfully and has you absolutely rapt. Set in 1935, the novel is narrated by Dr Stephen Pearce, one of five men chosen for.

I had always hoped Michelle would do another ghost story because I think her writing lends to them so well. There’s terror on a grander scale in Thin Air, Michelle Paver’s second foray into the ghost story genre.

A small expedition prepares to tackle Kangchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain. A team of five Englishmen, including narrator Stephen Pearce and his brother 'Kits', set off in the footsteps of a disastrous 1907 expedition, made famous through the memoirs of its leader Edmund Lyell. And Michelle is right at the top of my auto-read list, so I read her first ghost story, Dark Matter, when it came out a few years ago. Thin Air by Michelle Paver is an excellent and chilling ghost story that is set in the Himalayas in 1935. The context of 'Thin Air' is a 1935 expedition to the summit of the Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, the third highest peak in the world. The elite team of five will climb Kangchenjunga. Adult fiction doesn't normally do it for me, but I have authors that are auto-buys, or auto-reads, meaning I will get whatever they choose to publish, be it their masterpiece or a shopping list. In 1935, young medic Stephen Pearce travels to India to join an expedition with his brother, Kits. I've been a long term fan of Michelle's, for over twelve years since Wolf Brother came out and started an obsession with worlds and words that just won't ever leave me (and I hope it doesn't!).