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The Wilderness

Samantha Harvey

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English
Vintage
01 April 2010
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
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*FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL
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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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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   237g
ISBN:   9780099526537
ISBN 10:   0099526530
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Samantha Harvey was born in England in 1975. She has lived in Ireland, New Zealand and Japan writing, travelling and teaching, and in recent years has co-founded an environmental charity alongside her novel writing. She completed with distinction the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, where she was shortlisted for the PFD prize. The Wilderness is her first novel.

Reviews for The Wilderness

This is a finely written ode to memory, identity and love * Financial Times * Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. The author, whose debut this is, is very talented * Evening Standard * An extraordinary dramatisation of a mind in the process of disintegration ... Brilliant - read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes * The Times * A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity * Guardian * Brave and intelligent...a mesmerising work * Independent *


  • Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2009
  • Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
  • Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2009.
  • Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.
  • Winner of Betty Trask Award 2009
  • Winner of Betty Trask Award 2009.

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