Emergency: Daisy Hildyard

Hildyard, Daisy

ISBN 10: 1913097811 / ISBN 13: 9781913097813

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emergency: Daisy Hildyard
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913097811
• ISBN 13: 9781913097813
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 290 grams

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Synopsis

Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel hunting, helps a farmer with a renegade bull, and plays out with her best friend, Clare. Around her in the village her neighbours are arguing, keeping secrets, caring for one another, trying to hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry there are foxcubs fighting, plants competing for space, ageing machines, and a three-legged deer who likes cake. These local phenomena interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power.
A story of remote violence and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, brilliantly written, surprising, evocative and unsettling, Daisy Hildyard's Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.