Description
A young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe.
Over his body stands another man, axe in hand.
The gathered villagers must deal with the consequences of an act that no-one tried to stop. Wivenhoe is a haunting novel set in an alternate present, in a world that is slowly waking up to the fact that it is living through an environmental disaster.
Taking place over twenty-four hours and told through the voices of a mother and her adult son, we see how one small community reacts to social breakdown and isolation. Samuel Fisher imagines a world, not unlike our own, struck down and on the edge of survival.
At what point will we admit complicity in our own destruction?
‘Compelling…this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential’ – Irish Times
‘Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose…Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story’ – Olivia Sudjic
