![]() Being half Jewish, the family fled to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and only returned home after the war. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1929. ![]() WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE ![]() Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. ![]() Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that reads like The Handmaid's Tale meets The Roadĭiscover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.ĭeep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. ![]()
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