# The World Before Us, Vol. 1

By **Aislinn Hunter**

- ISBN-13: 9780241146873
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 432
- Published: 26 Mar 2015
- Language: en
- Price: £6.00 (new)
- Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Literary

## About this book

The World Before Us is a literary fiction novel that explores the fragile boundaries between memory, time, and identity. Jane, an archivist at a struggling London museum, is haunted by a childhood tragedy in Yorkshire where a young girl vanished into the woods under her watch. As she conducts a final research project, Jane investigates the disappearance of a woman known as N-, who vanished from a Victorian asylum in 1877 within those same woods.

This psychological fiction story moves between a modern museum, a historical asylum, and the estate that connects both eras. The World Before Us, Volume 1, utilizes a narrative influenced by the dead and forgotten to uncover a century-old mystery. Jane must navigate the traces left behind in history to confront her own past and understand the connection between these two lost souls.

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