Thin Air: A Ghost Story fitted the bill perfectly for me, this is more the the sort of story that is eerie and chilling and unsettling as opposed to scary. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, in which she travelled and wrote her first book,Without Charity. Not only does one have to worry about altitude sickness and frostbite and falling off the mountain, but malevolent spirits as well now? Because of this, combined with the likability of everyman narrator Stephen Pearce, I was pulled in from the beginning. Put that alongside the fact that it’s a mix of psychological thriller and ghost story , and you’ve got a winner.

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Paver is particularly skilled at painting a locale that is highly atmospheric, dislocating, and eerie.At a time of high anxiety, reading this (earlier than I intended; it's out in October) was a sort of treat to myself, and it worked perfectly, the sinister atmosphere completely engulfing all other worries. Grab this book and snuggle up tight under the covers – and resist the urge to pull back the curtains and look out the window; you never know what might be staring back at you. It has brotherly angst, a fight against the elements, tragedy, pettiness, and above all, really great foreshadowing. Thin Air is a must-read for any would-be or actual adventurer, mountaineer or weekend warrior… If you only read one ghost story this year, make it this one!

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Powerful, creepy, evocative – rest assured, Thin Air proves a more than worthy follow up to Dark Matter! Paver’s elegantly-crafted ghost story holds you in a vice-tight grip… Thin Air is an edge-of-your-seat reading experience that will leave you frosty-fingered and shivering as you hurriedly leaf through its pages to reach its startling climax. Thin Air is an edge-of-your-seat reading experience that will leave you frosty-fingered and shivering as you hurriedly leaf through its pages to reach its startling climax.

Is the narrator, as well as his climbing partners, suffering altitude sickness or is there something more nefarious haunting them? and he's a loyal dog too, which is sorta like saying a cat has claws because all good dogs are loyal dogs, but still it has to be said. All mountains are killers, but ours is worse than most," says Stephen, the protagonist of Thin Air as he climbs Kangchenjunga, the sacred mountain in the Himalayas. There is more to this mountain, and all the training and mountaineering experience won’t prepare them for it.

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The voice of a 1930s British narrator is captured incredibly well, to the extent that I initially found it hard going because of the casual racism towards the sherpas who made all these mad imperialist quests in the Himalayas possible. I really loved Michelle Paver's ghost story 'Dark matter' set during the 1930's about an arctic expedition, so I was really looking forward to her follow novel! The setting is immersive and thorough, and as the characters ascend the mountain, the cold, darkness they experience just about jumps off the page. In this regard, Michelle Paver's "Thin Air" - much like its predecessor Dark Matter - is not your typical ghostly tale since it is the very remoteness of the haunted spaces which makes the setting particularly eerie.With that said, I enjoyed this story immensely but when it's all said and done, it didn't 'wow' me like I was hoping for.

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Thin Air succeeds as an excellent ghost story and horror novel but it is also a wonderful piece of historical fiction and I thoroughly recommend it. THIN AIR once again demonstrates that Michelle Paver is one of the most fluent and powerful storytellers of our time. A short read at under 250 pages or 6 hours listening time and I think readers who like adventure stories or good old fashioned style Ghost stories will enjoy this one. The novel starts in a soul very likely to Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 days but as Stephen meets with an ex-mountaineer that had climbed the killer in the past, we immediately get the picture- this is no happy adventure. The story just sounded too similar - Dark Matter was about a group of five men embarking on an Arctic expedition in the 1930s; Thin Air is about a group of five men embarking on a mountain-climbing expedition in the 1930s - and I worried that the new story would effectively be a retread of the old one.Thin Air is a proper ghost story, the good old-fashioned type, to be read under a blanket with a candle flickering, and every detail of its creepy, compelling tale is note-perfect - the historical detail, the slow build-up, the delicious dread of the spooky scenes. 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.