The World Before Us
Author: Hunter, Aislinn
ISBN: 9780241970706
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Mar 2016
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting novel about trauma, loss, history and memory - set in a Victorian asylum and a quirky London museum
Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees - never to be seen again.
Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance: that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As she pieces together moments in history, Jane uncovers a tangled story that has been buried for more than a century, and finally confronts her own past . . .
ISBN: 9780241970706
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Mar 2016
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting novel about trauma, loss, history and memory - set in a Victorian asylum and a quirky London museum
Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees - never to be seen again.
Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance: that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As she pieces together moments in history, Jane uncovers a tangled story that has been buried for more than a century, and finally confronts her own past . . .
