The Wilderness

The Wilderness

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**FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL**It’s Jake’s birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer’s.As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what do they mean? Is there anything he’ll be able to salvage from the wreckage?From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.

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Weight 0.235 kg
Dimensions 2 × 13 × 19.7 cm
Format
language1
Pages

336
Publisher

Year Published

2010-2-4
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099526530
About The Author

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Brave and intelligent…a mesmerising work
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A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity

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