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| Publisher: Recorded Books | |
| Narrator: Sean Barrett |
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction last year, The Wilderness is a beautifully written novel about a man in his mid-sixties that has Alzheimer’s. This is Samantha Harvey’s first novel, her talent as a writer shines throughout this novel.
Jake, an architect by trade, is in the later stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Jake is a widower; he has a son, Henry, whom is in prison and a daughter, Alice. We are not sure whether Alice is alive or dead. He is living with a life long family friend, a woman whom has always been in love with him and is willing to take him illness and all.
The novel weaves through Jake’s past and present, one moment he is lost in the present then we slip into his memories. These memories are not coherent pictures but collogues of his life with the events being constantly rearranged. So, the question is, are Jake’s memories of the life he led or the memories of the one he wished he had lived. No matter, Jake certainly leads us into the wilderness.
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