Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

Had their been the smallest hint that this was the story, I would have avoided it. Things like this are on the news and survivors write books about it and with deepest sympathy for what they've endured, I don't want to read it. I would NEVER knowingly choose to read that and I felt insulted by the author that she sprang that on readers in the final pages of her book so, personally, I was outraged that this was the story she was telling instead of what the flyleaf said. Or maybe he was raping her all along since he forced her to sleep in the same bed as himself. If you want to know the actual what the heck this book is about, read about the last five pages and you'll spare yourself hours and hours of boredom, unless you like books about a crazed father stealing his young daughter to live in a shack in the mountains, almost starving and if you want to know the rest, I'll tell you What bothered me most and why I reviewed this as I did is that I would NEVER pick up a book about a man who kidnaps his child, spend years grooming her and rapes her. What most irritates me, what I find so off-putting(beyond all of the mind-numbing lack of a plot) is that the story is only finally going somewhere when it ends. After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother learns the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since.I regret that I can't unread this disgusting garbage.

When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she'd lost. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters.

Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Part fairy-tale, part magic, yet always savagely realistic Claire Fuller's haunting and powerful debut Our Endless Numbered Days will appeal to fans of Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child and Christian Baker Kline's Orphan Train.

Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller