'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?
| ISBN: | 9781472156426 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Samuel Fisher |
| Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 151 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
