The World Before Us
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  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241979617
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The World Before Us

How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

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Paperback
5 Jul 2022
EBook
1 Apr 2021
EBook
26 Mar 2015
Audiobook
25 Mar 2021
Audiobook
28 Jul 2016
Paperback
28 Mar 2016
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A haunting novel about trauma, loss, history and memory - set in a Victorian asylum and a quirky London museum

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter, read by Fiona Hardingham.

Jane was fifteen when her life changed for ever. In the woods surrounding a Yorkshire country house, she took her eyes off the little girl she was minding and the girl slipped into the trees - never to be seen again.

Now an adult, Jane is obsessed with another disappearance: that of a young woman who walked out of a Victorian lunatic asylum one day in 1877. As she pieces together moments in history, Jane uncovers a tangled story that has been buried for more than a century, and finally confronts her own past . . .
  • Published: 28 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241979617
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Praise for The World Before Us

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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