Hunters in the Snow

Daisy Hildyard

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English

Vintage
15 July 2014

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A beguiling first novel about history, truth and falsehood, the ordinary and the very, very strange

After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The exiled Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former African slave Olaudah Equiano takes his book-tour down a Welsh coal-mine; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener, mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916.

These are the stories she remembers him telling her, and others too - about medieval miracles and EU agricultural subsidies; old people and fallen kings; homemade fireworks and invented dogs; Arctic ice cores, sunk ships, drowning horses, salt, sperm, carbon and miners. The history of great men loses its way in the stories of ordinary great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, including the historian's own.

Hunters in the Snow marks the debut of a truly remarkable young writer.

By: Daisy Hildyard
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9780099578888
ISBN 10: 0099578883
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 July 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daisy Hildyard was born in Yorkshire in 1984 and currently lives in London, where she is studying for a PhD on scientific language. This is her first novel.

Reviews for Hunters in the Snow

Hunters in the Snow is a brilliant debut. Its investigations into the individual's relationship to history call to mind the best of Sebald. -- Kevin Powers author of The Yellow Birds A beautiful ragbag of glittering scraps and vivid images... This is a stunning first novel; Hildyard's writing is superb. -- Kate Saunders The Times Comparisons will be made between Hilyard's work and that of W. G. Sebald. I had no sooner finished it than I started to read it again... This book is not just a promising first effort by a bright young writer. It is a considerable work of literature. -- A. N. Wilson Spectator It draws you in, lights up dark corners playfully, supposes all kinds of things about how we remember, record or forget. It's also very located. The bass line, so to speak, is a very particular part of England, with characters who stick like burrs to the imagination. -- Helen Dunmore author of The Siege A remarkable debut... it's an expansive and ambitious book that has echoes of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Shortlist