Emergency
by Daisy Hildyard
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Pub Date Aug 02 2022 | Archive Date Jul 26 2022
Astra Publishing House | Astra House
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Description
Emergency is a novel about the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. Our narrator is at home during lockdown, where she ponders both past and present. She remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She recalls a kestrel hunt, helping a farmer save a renegade bull, and days playing with her best friend, Clare. In her village, neighbors argue, keep secrets, care for one another, and try to hold down jobs. Fox cubs fight in the woods, plants compete for space, a quarry slowly falls apart, and we see a three-legged deer who likes cake. With painterly vision, Hildyard evokes the bygone, pre-internet world of her schooldays, whose irretrievability signals at something far greater than fleeting youth. With urgent intimacy, Emergency asks us to look at the essential; the people who help define us, animals, local and global ecologies, and to consider what the slow disappearance of Hildyard’s and our own native environment might mean for humanity at large. A requiem for the English countryside, a story of remote violence, and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781662601477 |
| PRICE | $23.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
Featured Reviews
Steve H, Librarian
I really enjoyed 'Emergency' by Daisy Hildyard.
It is redolent of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'The Secret Garden', stories seen through the eyes of a child - a magical childhood, but one with an edge.
Exploring the interconnectedness of everything and the fragility and vitality of nature, it is a hymn to the earth. There are so many memorable passages that make you feel you're there too, and want to tell someone about it.
Some of the writing is so poetic that it deserves to be read aloud.
Flo J, Educator
"Emergency" will please people who are nostalgic and readers who want to decide to live in the countryside. Never boring, full of precious details, it is different from a biography but with all the charms of a true story.
As a witness of a bygone era, the author brushes a depiction of everyday life at the countryside iwith many relevant details. A book no reader will forget !
Thanks to the author and the publisher for an advanced copy all opinions are mine.
Andrea N, Reviewer
I found this quite a curious, gloomy read but not in a bad way! The narrator, stuck alone during lockdown, looks back at the disconnected memories of her childhood living in the countryside.
There are beautiful, poetic descriptions of nature and she looks at how all life, big and small, near and far, is interconnected.
It’s well-written, lyrical and I enjoyed the brutal snippets of life growing up in a rural community and then in lockdown as an adult. It filled me with a sense of unease throughout, but was an interesting, thought-provoking read.
Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. All views are my own.
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