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Paperback edition of the debut novel which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. An original tale, it features drawings and diagrams by its narrator, a child genius. Repackaged with a fresh and confident new look, for the Christmas market. 'This book is a treasure' Stephen King
Synopsis
T S Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. T S makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks.