Our endless numbered days
Original Publication date: February 2015
Genre: Fiction
Book description (from Good Reads): Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons.
When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods.
Thoughts:
This is told in two time periods, the present after Peggy is back with her mother and how she is facing the time back among society. She is very conflicted about how she feels about her father and her time away.
It is at first confusing, you start to get fragments of the past before the time she left so initially you do not know how she really feels about her father, she is not overly bothered by the experience as her mother thinks she ought to feel.
It was an interesting story, where you do not know what really happened because it is unclear as time goes on, it is hard to know what happened for real and what Peggy is not telling them either because she is actively trying to ignore what really happened or if its the result of a coping mechanism.
It was a nice story.
I gave this a 3-star rating.
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