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 takes her away from their big house in London while her mother is away on tour. He takes her to the German countryside, to a delapitated cabin remote in the mountains, explaining that this is their […]
And you thought your adolescence was bad
Peggy Hillcoat is an eight-year-old girl growing up in London with her concert pianist, German mother and English, survivalist-leaning father. When her mother goes on a concert tour, her father takes her to a run-down cabin in the remote woods of Germany and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed, including all of her family and friends. Our Endless Numbered Days (2015) by Claire Fuller alternates between Peggy growing up in the woods with her father, and when Peggy is recently returned […]
The camping trip of nightmares
Oh, this was good. It was creepy and did a lot of hinting around at certain things before whacking you on the face with the facts at the very end. Excellent! “Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we’re going to live by the sun and the seasons.’ He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.’Our days will be endless.” Peggy (known as Punzel […]
Surviving the wilderness, surviving your family.
After reading the first paragraph of janniethestrange’s review of Our Endless Numbered Days, I went right on over to Amazon and bought it. I didn’t even finish the review, since I wanted to go in with only the roughest idea of the plot. And I’m glad I did! The plot is well-told, but more than the plot, I loved the mood of the book. We get a creepy sense of foreboding from the narration, which is told in a sort of fog of youth, that her survivalist […]