Dimensions
144 x 222 x 29mm
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.
She is not seen again for another nine years.
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?
As if laying a trail of breadcrumbs for readers to follow, Claire Fuller leads us on an extraordinary and heart stopping journey as light as it is dark and as joyful as it is horrifying.
'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
'A remarkable first novel, I was much impressed by the conviction of the child's eye view, the vivid climate and the power of the narrative' Penelope Lively
'Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as dark as midnight in the forest'
Rebecca Hunt (author of Everland and Mr Chartwell)
'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)
'Graciously written and capriciously imagined, Our Endless Numbered Days holds up a magnifying lens to the human spirit and deftly captures both its fragility and its resilience. The brilliant ending, like the best endings do, casts new light on all that comes be for it' Cathy Marie Buchanan (author of The Painted Girls)
'Narrated with warmth and compassion, Our Endless Numbered Days is a haunting and beautiful novel. I loved every page' Daniel Clay (author of Broken)
'Fuller's compelling coming-of-age story, narrated from the perspective of Peggy's return to civilization, is delivered in translucent prose' Kirkus
