The New Wilderness

• Author: Cook, Diane

About Book

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Published date: 2020-08-13
• Pages: 398
• ISBN: 9780861540372
• GoodReads Rating: 3.7

Condition & Size

• Size: Format C (Large Format)
• Book Type: Paperback
• Condition: Excellent

Summary

Daring and imaginative, passionate and terrifying, The New Wilderness is the much-anticipated debut novel from the author of acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature.Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home is ravaging her lungs. Bea knows she cannot stay in the City, but there is only one alternative: the Wilderness State. Mankind has never been allowed to venture into this vast expanse of untamed land. Until now. Bea and Agnes join eighteen other volunteers who agree to take part in a radical experiment. They must slowly learn how to live in the unpredictable, often dangerous Wilderness, leaving no trace on their surroundings in their quest to survive. But as Agnes embraces this new existence, Bea realises that saving her daughter's life might mean losing her in ways she hadn't foreseen.At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary, urgent novel from a celebrated new literary voice.