Our Endless Numbered Days

Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.

Extraordinary ...From the opening sentence it is gripping ...Fuller writes with a singing simplicity that finds beauty amid the terror ... might well have you crying out for more .

Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of a fairytale , full of clues , questions and intrigue .

Bewitching ...a rivetingly dark tale... spellbinding .

Fuller's twisted tale is compulsive , treading the fine line between charming and sinister . With its disturbing twist , Our Endless Numbered Days could well become a classic .

Rewardingly unsettling ...as warped and sinister as any Brothers Grimm fairytale, this tautly written , tense novel is brilliant at evoking both the bewitching beauty of its setting - and its inherent dangers... haunting , suspenseful and deftly written ... memorably chilling .

Straightaway I was intrigued to find out where this novel was heading... Fuller evokes the natural world's beauty and brutality .

A debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows as Thoreau's Walden and Emma Donoghue's Room ... gripping .

I tore through it , found it utterly gripping and loved its hypnotic atmosphere . The beauty and pleasures of the natural world pitted against the unravelling horrors of isolation and insanity worked brilliantly .

A remarkable first novel , I was much impressed by the conviction of the child's eye view, the vivid climate and the power of the narrative .

Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting , and as dark as midnight in the forest .

Excellent ...I loved the combination of Peggy/Punzel's absolutely authentic child's precision for detail and her day-to-day matter-of-factness ( often very funny ) with the strangeness of the world she inhabited... very powerfully imagined ... absolutely compelling .

Narrated with warmth and compassion , Our Endless Numbered Days is a haunting and beautiful novel. I loved every page .

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written five previous novels including: Unsettled Ground , which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days , which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons , which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.