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The World Before Us

Aislinn Hunter

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English
Penguin
28 March 2016
Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees - never to be seen again. Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance: that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As Jane pieces together moments in history, forgotten stories emerge - of sibling jealousy, illicit affairs, and tragic death...
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   298g
ISBN:   9780241970706
ISBN 10:   0241970709
Pages:   432
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Aislinn Hunter is the author of a novel, Stay; a collection of stories, What's Left Us; and two collections of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past. The World Before Us is her first book of fiction in twelve years. After travelling to London and Edinburgh over the past few years to study for a PhD, Aislinn Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Reviews for The World Before Us

Daring and mesmerizing. A haunting, irresistible story and an urgent mystery about what it means to pass through this life. Absorbing, luminous and powerfully human -- Alison MacLeod, author of Unexploded An original and intelligent novel about the past and its persistent power in the present Sunday Times Sensitive, melancholy, sharply observant. A work of great power Guardian Strange and absorbing ... I relished this book Penelope Lively, The New York Times Book Review Beguiling, richly suggestive ... a tantalising mystery Metro A complex, subtle, and utterly haunting meditation on memory, history, and mortality. This book is magnificent -- Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven


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