Emergency

Emergency by Daisy Hildyard


ISBN
9781913097813
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
129 x 198mm

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.

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. 

'Its prose is bewitching and uncompromising, alive to the enmeshing of cruelty with care that articulates our shared - human and nonhuman - existence.' - Daisy Lafarge, author of Paul
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