Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller
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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
House of Anansi Press Inc
DRM:
Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2015
2015
ISBN-13:
9781770898264
Description:
<p><strong>Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel</strong></p>
<p>"Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones." — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury</p>
<p>In the tradition of <em>Winter’s Bone</em> and <em>The Outlander</em>, <em>Our Endless Numbered Days</em> is a powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.</p>
<p>In 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of <em>The Railway Children</em>, and listening to her mother’s grand piano. But her life is about to change.</p>
<p>Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions to prepare for the end of the world, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. She is not seen again for another nine years.</p>
<p>In 1985, Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? And why — and how — has she come back now? <em>Our Endless Numbered Days</em> is the most unputdownable and extraordinary novel you will read this year.</p>
<p>"Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones." — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury</p>
<p>In the tradition of <em>Winter’s Bone</em> and <em>The Outlander</em>, <em>Our Endless Numbered Days</em> is a powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.</p>
<p>In 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of <em>The Railway Children</em>, and listening to her mother’s grand piano. But her life is about to change.</p>
<p>Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions to prepare for the end of the world, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. She is not seen again for another nine years.</p>
<p>In 1985, Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? And why — and how — has she come back now? <em>Our Endless Numbered Days</em> is the most unputdownable and extraordinary novel you will read this year.</p>