Summary

Our Endless Numbered Days is narrated in the first-person by Peggy Hillcoat. The narration oscillates between two sections of Peggy’s life. The first section is Peggy’s present moment in 1985, when Peggy is a 17-year-old girl living in London with her mother and brother. Peggy narrates these sections in the present tense. The second section is comprised of Peggy recalling her time as a child, when her father forced her to live in the woods and told her the rest of the world had been destroyed. The novel begins with Peggy’s present moment in London, where she is examining an old photograph of her father, her father’s friends, her mother Ute (who was a concert pianist), and herself. The present Peggy reminisces about her old life, before her father took her away, and says, “Looking at the photograph, I...