The World Before Us

Aislinn Hunter

The World Before Us
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 February 2016
Pages
432
ISBN
9780241970706

The World Before Us

Aislinn Hunter

A haunting novel about trauma, loss, history and memory - set in a Victorian asylum and a quirky London museum

Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees - never to be seen again.

Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance- that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As she pieces together moments in history, Jane uncovers a tangled story that has been buried for more than a century, and finally confronts her own past …

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