Wivenhoe Wivenhoe

Wivenhoe

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Publisher Description

'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times

'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story' Olivia Sudjic


A young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man, axe in hand. The gathered villagers must deal with the consequences of an act that no-one tried to stop.

WIVENHOE is a haunting novel set in an alternate present, in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster. Taking place over twenty-four hours and told through the voices of a mother and her adult son, we see how one small community reacts to social breakdown and isolation.

Samuel Fisher imagines a world, not unlike our own, struck down and on the edge of survival. Tense, poignant, and set against a dramatic landscape, WIVENHOE asks the question: if society as we know it is lost, what would we strive to save? At what point will we admit complicity in our own destruction?

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
3 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SIZE
1.6
MB
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