An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age.
She lives in Bath, England..
She recently cofounded an environmental charity.
In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and lived in Ireland and New Zealand.
A., with distinction, from the Bath Spa Creative Writing course in 2005. in philosophy and an M.
A.
About the Author: Born in Kent, England, in 1975, Samantha Harvey has an M.
What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? Why is his son imprisoned? And why can\'t he shake the memory of a yellow dress and one lonely, echoing gunshot? Like Marilynne Robinson\'s Gilead, The Wilderness holds us in its grip from the first sentence to the last with the sheer beauty of its language and its ruminations on love and loss.
As the disease takes hold of him, Jake\'s memories become increasingly unreliable.
His wife has passed away, his son is in prison, and now he is about to lose his past to Alzheimer\'s.
An Orange Prize Finalist A Man Booker Prize Nominee Winner of the 2009 Betty Trask Prize A Guardian First Book Award Nominee Jake is in the tailspin of old age
