The Story Of A Million YearsThe acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories, desires, and secrets. Marcy, Allen, Uta, Jimmy each becomes the hero of his or her own story, as all mine the past for evidence of goodness. David Huddle moves with remarkable agility from the imagination of a precocious adolescent girl, to the fears of a man in midlife, to the longings of a wife whose reserve cloaks aching depths.

or night away from home

killed by an unknown hand

With the school unraveling

In return for enough money to put her brothers through college

the shifter Ness is forced to be a weapon for his corrupt politician father

In the tradition of some of our finest life writers

rock ‘n’ roll’ is what you want

The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city

this classic work continues to speak over the centuries to our time

a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck

Though six friends partied on the outskirts of town that night

hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before