The Wall

When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival. A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival.. This is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans of hoping for a calf of counting matches of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.. **PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER STATION ELEVEN AND THE MARTIAN. VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism a blast of fresh air a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.