Our endless numbered days
Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her father takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest, after nine years she is coming back home, but what happened to her during that time?
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291 pages - Publisher Toronto : Anansi, 2015.
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Our Endless Numbered Days
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel "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 In the tradition of Winter's Boneand The Outlander, Our Endless Numbered Daysis 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. In 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children, and listening to her mother's grand piano. But her life is about to change. 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. 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? Our Endless Numbered Daysis the most unputdownable and extraordinary novel you will read this year.