The New Wilderness

A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter.

'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge

From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel 'brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel)A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the YearA 'Best Book of the Year 2020' according to BBC CultureAn Irish Times Best Debut Fiction of 2020NPR Best Books of the YearBea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home. The only alternative is to build a life in the vast expanse of untamed land known as The Wilderness State.

No one has been allowed to venture here before. That is all about to change. But as Bea soon discovers, saving her daughter's life might mean losing her in ways she hadn't foreseen.

Passionate and exhilarating, The New Wilderness is the story of a mother's fight to save her daughter in a world she can no longer call her own.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020