Doggerland

December 2013. The powerful atmospheric depression named 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 coming. 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 ended up submerged under the waters of the ocean. But Ted cannot dissuade her from her trip, and in Denmark Margaret will coincide with Marc Berthelot, with whom in her student years she had a loving relationship. Marc, who now works for the oil industry and is also participating in the symposium, is concerned about the suspicion that a shift in 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. In the midst of the storm, which has already made landfall and empties the streets, the old lovers meet again 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, geological, ecological, economic.