LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
January 2016 Debut of the Month.
One of our Books of the Year 2015.
Seventeen-year old Peggy has recently returned home, initially we know not from where. Her father is dead, her mother has destroyed all evidence of him from their home. Peggy has a nine-year old brother who she has only just met. Slowly we are drip-fed an extraordinary tale of madness and survival. Young eight-year old Peggy spent an idyllic summer living rough with her father, learning survival skills. He then takes her on a trek across Europe to a deserted wooden hut where they turn native for he believes the world has ended and he and Peggy the only people left alive. How he dies and she eventually gets home is the heart of this terrific tale. It is an unusual, atmospheric, alarming, horrifying tale of madness and survival. Highly recommended. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015.
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Our Endless Numbered Days Synopsis
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 pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241003947 |
| Publication date: |
31st December 2015 |
| Author: |
Claire Fuller |
| Publisher: |
Fig Tree an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
304 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Press Reviews
Claire Fuller Press Reviews
‘I tore through it, found it utterly gripping and loved its hypnotic atmosphere. The beauty and pleasures of the natural world pitted against the unravelling horrors of isolation and insanity worked brilliantly’ Esther Freud
‘Excellent…I loved the combination of Peggy/Punzel’s absolutely authentic child’s precision for detail and her day-to-day matter-of-factness (often very funny) with the strangeness of the world she inhabited…very powerfully imagined... absolutely compelling’ Morag Joss (author of The Night Following)
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About Claire Fuller
Claire Fuller is the author of four novels. Her most recent, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her first, Our Endless Numbered Days won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, her second, Swimming Lessons was shortlisted for the Encore prize, and her third, Bitter Orange was on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Claire also writes flash fiction and short stories. Many have been published, and she has won the BBC Opening Lines short story competition, and the Royal Academy / Pin Drop prize.
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