A review by casparb
Emergency by Daisy Hildyard

going to do the eyerollingly predictable thing and say is it A NOvel ,,,,, I really like this. I think we expect good things from fitzcarraldo & this delivers as it should, but it got me going elsewhere too. Melodramatically billed as 'dark pastoral' (??? o come on now) ,, Emergency lives in other directions, a kind of prose Afterlife of the Naturalist. I think the 'twist' abt 50 pages in where we're flung into lockdown was effective!! I kind of wanted more from that, and that did weave its way back in, the big capital T Themes are emerging ,,, maybe my/our expectations for something like this are little heresies. I don't know.

also! Daisy married to caleb klaces ? serve