Doggerland, by Élisabeth Filhol

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Geography is not immutable either, as can be suspected from simple observation. She also ends up succumbing to unforeseen movements, to unimaginable separations from the intempetuousness of the tectonic plates and all the magma that runs inside like boiling blood.

From that idea, Elisasbeth Fihol tune in to the disparate times of humans with those of Earth. In the comparison, everything ends up being ephemeral, marvelous and melancholy temporary, as was a Dogerland in charge of uniting England with continental Europe.

The reunion of two lovers. A storm that devastates the north of Europe. A land submerged under water. A fascinating novel. 

December 2013. The powerful atmospheric depression baptized as Xaver looms over northern Europe turned into a meteorological bomb. From the Met Office in Exeter, Ted Hamilton is one of the meteorologists who launches the alert about the dangerous storm that is approaching. And he also warns his sister Margaret, professor of Archeology at the University of St Andrews, that he plans to travel to Denmark to give a lecture on Doggerland, the piece of land that in the Mesolithic period linked the coasts of the United Kingdom with the continent and that it ended up submerged under the waters of the ocean.

But Ted fails to dissuade her from her trip, and in Denmark Margaret will coincide with Marc Berthelot, with whom in his student years he maintained a loving relationship. Marc, who now works for the oil industry and is also participating in the symposium, is uneasy about the suspicion that a displacement of tectonic layers such as the one that led to the disappearance of Doggerland could be repeated in the not too distant future, which would have catastrophic consequences.

Between the storm, which has already made landfall and empties the streets, the reunion of the old lovers takes place after two decades without seeing each other ... But these characters make up only one of the dimensions of a novel that has many: the human, the geological, the ecological, the economic.

With an absorbing prose, Élisabeth Filhol explores the chasms of human beings and continents, scrutinizes atmospheric depressions and the exploitation and oil speculation that threatens the ecological balance of the planet ... Daring, risky and portentous, in doggerland unfathomable human desires and feelings intersect with no less unfathomable geological mysteries.

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