Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her 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. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the events that brought her to the woods ...
This week's book is Claire Fuller's Our Endless Numbered Days and we'll be meeting at The Fletcher Moss on William Street in Didsbury.