Emergency by Daisy Hildyard

Emergency by Daisy HildyardEmergency 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 fox cubs

the stakes become very high

Perfect for curling up at home on cosy winter evenings and crisp autumn mornings

little has been done nationally to change the tragic reality that one woman is killed by a current or former male partner every week

to Emma herself

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

She researched and co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence Report for the Queensland government

Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation

Robert Farquharson

'From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion

The Way It Was is a true story

Google Empathy Lab

twisty jungles alive with cannibal plants who hunt by the smell of fear