David Coventry’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Invisible Mile, won the 2016 Hubert Church Award for Fiction in his native New Zealand and was a finalist for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Award. Born in 1969, Coventry lives and writes on the side of a hill in Wellington.
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“A cyclist from New Zealand who competes in the 1928 Tour de France with the help of copious quantities of drugs and alcohol is the protagonist of this brooding first novel.”— The New York Times Book Review, Jun 22 2017![]()
“Coventry’s brooding narrative, in varying parts philosophical action-adventure, travelogue, family drama, war chronicle and psychological puzzler, is suffused with the ever-querying perspective of its haunted central character.”— The New York Times Book Review, Jun 16 2017![]()
“An introspective, philosophical look at the race.”— Historical Novels Review, May 1 2017![]()
“The remains of the war and memories of it hover over the story, as the riders complete superhuman rides, stoked on drugs of all sorts.”— Library Journal, Apr 15 2017![]()
“Based on a true event, New Zealand author Coventry’s tense, dark debut novel is a powerful story of grim determination and one man’s forlorn hope to conquer fear and pain in the world’s most grueling bicycle race, the Tour de France.”— Publishers Weekly, Mar 28 2017
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