Our Endless Numbered Days Av Claire Fuller

<p><b>WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE</b><br><br><b>An </b><b>imaginative</b><b>, mysterious modern fairytale from the Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of </b><i><b>Unsettled Ground</b></i><br><br>1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of <i>The Railway Children</i> and listening to her mother''s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.<br><br>Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared.<br><br>Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything.<br><br><b>''Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of a fairytale, full of clues, questions and intrigue'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Bewitching . . .