Our Endless Numbered Days
From Shelf: Read in 2021
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 pretty life is about to change.
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEFROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUNDEvery parent lies. But some lies are bigger than others...In the summer of 1976 eight-year-old Peggy Hillcoat is taken from London by her survivalist father to live in a cabin in a remote European forest. When they arrive he tells Peggy that her mother and the rest of the world are gone.Now the two of them must scratch a living from the earth: trapping squirrels, foraging for berries, surviving winter as best they can. But it is easy to lose you way in the forest, to lose yourself. How long will Peggy trust her father's story? How long can you stay sane when the world is lost? And what happens when you stop believing in everything?'Extraordinary' The Sunday Times'Remarkable' Penelope Lively'Haunting, suspenseful ... As warped and sinister as any Brothers Grimm fairytale' Metro'A rivetingly dark tale ... Spellbinding' Sunday Express
RRP: £9.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780241003947
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