Emergency
Hildyard, Daisy, 1984-2022
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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.
Main title:
Emergency / Daisy Hildyard.
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Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781913097813 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2622674