
Our Endless Numbered Days
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Narrated by:
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Eilidh L. Beaton
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By:
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Claire Fuller
Winner of the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize
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 that makes music but no sound and a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is everything.
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Critic reviews
"Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of a fairytale, full of clues, questions and intrigue." ( The Times)
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So good! Surprise ending!
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Amazing narrator for a hauntingly amazing book
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Slow but mesmerizing
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Amazing plot, so touching
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Disturbing and compelling
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I feel I should start off by saying that the 3 stars for writing in this review, rather than 4 or 5, are more related to story content than anything else.
Fuller's writing is spare and beautiful, and the structure of her novel intersects deftly with the psychology of her main character, the voice of the story. I think Fuller has a gorgeous skill with language and is a great storyteller.
(spoiler)However, I didn't appreciate how the violence & rape perpetrated on the young girl at the center of the story was treated. The story is disturbing and these events definitely fall in the context of a dark mystery, but it feels like they are being employed as devices, or in other words, for the purpose of entertainment.
I'm missing empathy, insight, compassion from the author outside of the voice of the narrator/main character in the telling of this story.
The voice actor for this audible version was great.
Beautiful writing, but uncomfortable with the treatment of disturbing subject matter
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Insanity in the forest.....
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If you're in the mood for an overly long, repetitive book, full of irresponsible, selfish, and completely crazy adults, a questionable protagonist, written by an author that withheld information from the reader until the end of the sordid tale to make the ending more melodramatic, then you might enjoy Our Endless Numbered Days. Even a decent narration and some above average prose couldn't save this one for me.
Repetitive, disturbing, and melodramatic
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Poor Choice
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Here's the thing. I didn't find this book isn't haunting or compelling. It's boring. You get a day by day, but not even anything exciting or particularly interesting - just a dredge. The review that said that it was repetitive hit the point well. It's repetitive until the novel skips ahead several years and then suddenly it ends.
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