by Claire Fuller
Peggy Hillcoat is the daughter of a famous German concert pianist and an English survivalist, who despite the disapproval of his wife keeps stockpiling supplies in a shelter in their garden and preparing for the worst. Only eight years old, she doesn't question what is happening when her father take...
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 c...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, e-book, net-galley, newtome-author, germany, published-2015, debut, betrayal, bullies, cold-war, cover-love, cults-societies-brotherhoods, decline-disintergration-degradation, dodgy-narrator, doo-lally, environmental-issues, fairy-tales, first-world-angst, forest, game...
So creepy, so good. A father takes his daughter into the woods saying the world has ended. That same daughter is rescued years later, her father dead. There's something of the doomsday prepper/child abductor infused in the plot the whole time, and and mystery of what exactly happened keeps the reade...
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