{"product_id":"emergency-isbn-9781662601477","title":"Emergency","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Odell, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth as we head towards ecological catastrophe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive kaleidoscope of past and present, nature and industry, stillness and pace, collapsing all into a tapestry of consciousness.” \u003cbr\u003e—Ayşegül Savaş, author of \u003ci\u003eWalking on the Ceiling\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. Our narrator is at home during lockdown, where she ponders both past and present. She remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She recalls a kestrel hunt, helping a farmer save a renegade bull, and days playing with her best friend, Clare. In her village, neighbors argue, keep secrets, care for one another, and try to hold down jobs. Fox cubs fight in the woods, plants compete for space, a quarry slowly falls apart, and we see a three-legged deer who likes cake. With painterly vision, Hildyard evokes the bygone, pre-internet world of her schooldays, whose irretrievability signals at something far greater than fleeting youth. With urgent intimacy, \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to look at the essential; the people who help define us, animals, local and global ecologies, and to consider what the slow disappearance of Hildyard’s and our own native environment might mean for humanity at large.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA requiem for the English countryside, a story of remote violence, and a work of praise for a persistently lively world, Daisy Hildyard’s \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e reinvents the pastoral novel for the climate change era.\"In refusing to privilege human drama over natural processes, Hildyard captures the ecosystem’s delicate interconnectedness and suggests a new way of writing about our toll on the environment.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[Emergency is] a gorgeous novel of a youth spent on the cusp of societal upheaval.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The beauty of \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e is in its attempt to glimpse an expanded paradigm of meaning, which encompasses but isn’t limited to our own.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSam Sacks,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial intervention. It drives a stake into the heart of the pastoral genre . . . This is what nature writing should be: absurd, overwhelming, and chaotically alive with the din of the world.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lauren Collee, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"There is something energetic in \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e, something mystical about the human and non-human really meeting . . . \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us, through its young protagonist, that we often miss so much of the world, so much of reality.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eAlan Rossi, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"In meditative and exquisitely constructed descriptions . . . the natural world comes to us, blazingly alive, and our place in it does too.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou,\u003ci\u003e The White Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning book—a balm for our times—containing the incredible gift of the everyday.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A quiet, complicated hymn to nature . . . \u003ci\u003e[Emergency]\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel with an elastic strangeness, gliding seamlessly between the familiar and the surreal . . . In the wake of the biggest natural melodrama of recent times, Emergency is a thoughtful, poised reflection on how much change we humans, among the animals, can ever bring to bear.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Natalie Whittle, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “This quiet, well-written novel, which has a surprise ending, is worth a look.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Barbara Love, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Daisy Hildyard has confronted our new nature and, bravely, compellingly, makes our shared emergency visible.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare Pettitt, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"A keenly observed book of naturalism, \u003ci\u003e[Emergency] \u003c\/i\u003eis about a place, an era and the tenuous epoch of childhood which are all as fragile and fleeting as they are eternal in symbol and memory. I loved this book. When I finished it, I started over at the beginning.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah Blackman, \u003ci\u003eHeavy Feather Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEmergency \u003c\/i\u003eis a quiet novel that explores with remarkable subtlety the deep and fraying interconnectedness of life on earth. Hildyard writes with the precision and associative leaps of a poet . . . It’s something new that will linger long after you’ve finished reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stephen Sparks, Bookseller at Point Reyes Books\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A common fragility unites all species in this quietly magnificent novel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Damian Walsh, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book succeeds because of the chilly and beautifully sustained voice of its narrator, the precise embroidery of its sentences and paragraphs, its observations of the natural world and insistence that there is no distinction between humans and environments.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah Moss, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daisy Hildyard’s \u003ci\u003eEmergency\u003c\/i\u003e is a pastoral novel for the age of dissolving boundaries.The slowness and gentleness of the text, its pace and its language, make you consider its title.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Abi Andrews, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Past and present, nature and humanity, life and death intermix, ebbing and flowing in a stream of prose that carries the reader on an exhilarating … and violent ride.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philippa Nutall, \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hildyard doesn’t offer the narratives of therapy, social criticism or self-development to be found in other English pastoralists …. Her style is more reminiscent of such contemporary poets as Kathleen Jamie and Alice Oswald, with their quiet and attentive watchfulness to a non-human reality they only half-understand. Her prose calls for, and frequently earns, the same respectful attentiveness from its readers.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dr. Nikhil Krishnan, \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDaisy Hildyard holds a PhD in the history of science, and has previously published essays on the language of science, and on seventeenth-century mathematics. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eHunters in the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Somerset Maugham Award and a ‘5 under 35’ honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. Her essay \u003ci\u003eThe Second Body\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. 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