In 1877 a woman disappears from an asylum in the remote Yorkshire countryside, slipping into the woods and out of the pages of history. Over a hundred years later, in the same stretch of tangled woodland, fifteen-year-old Jane takes her eyes off the little girl she's babysitting for a moment and the girl is gone, never to be found.
Aislinn Hunter is the author of a novel, Stay; a collection of stories, What's Left Us; and two collections of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past. The World Before Us is her first book of fiction in twelve years. After travelling to London and Edinburgh over the past few years to study for a PhD, Aislinn Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Daring and mesmerizing. A haunting, irresistible story and an urgent mystery about what it means to pass through this life. Absorbing, luminous and powerfully human -- Alison MacLeod, author of Unexploded An original and intelligent novel about the past and its persistent power in the present Sunday Times Sensitive, melancholy, sharply observant. A work of great power Guardian Strange and absorbing ... I relished this book Penelope Lively, The New York Times Book Review Beguiling, richly suggestive ... a tantalising mystery Metro A complex, subtle, and utterly haunting meditation on memory, history, and mortality. This book is magnificent -- Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
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