Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: Lancaster Library
As if Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man’s growing humanity amidst famine and extinction.
Written in the form of a 19th-century notebook of ornithological observations, Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green. A fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast, Green is determined to set the scientific record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings of the Great Auk.
But his world is shattered when his monthly delivery of provisions arrives ravaged by the local townsmen, and his fury is matched only by his dismay at finding a small child amid the shipment – dirty, abandoned, mute and utterly feral.
‘A darkly funny literary thriller about research, seabirds, and the terror of parenthood? Absolutely sold’ LitHub
Author:
Eoghan Walls teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has published two poetry collections, The Salt Harvest and Pigeon Songs, and the novel The Gospel of Orla.
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