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Author Cook, Diane, 1976-, author

Title The new wilderness / Diane Cook
Published London : Oneworld Publications, 2020

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 MELB  810.6 C7713 A6/N  AVAILABLE
Description 398 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the City - an over-populated, over-built metropolis where most of the population lives - is destroying her lungs. But what can Bea do? No one leaves the City anymore, because there is nowhere else to go. But across the country lies the Wilderness State, the last swath of open, protected land left. Here forests and desert plains are inhabited solely by wildlife. People are forbidden. Until now. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State as part of a study to see if humans can co-exist with nature. Can they be part of the wilderness and not destroy it? Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, this new community wanders through the grand country, trying to adhere to the strict rules laid down by the Rangers, whose job it is to remind them they must Leave No Trace. As the group slowly learns to live and survive on the unpredictable and often dangerous land, its members battle for power and control and betray and save each other. The farther they roam, the closer they come to their animal soul. To her dismay, Bea discovers that, in fleeing to the Wilderness State to save Agnes, she is losing her in a different way. Agnes is growing wilder and closer to the land, while Bea cannot shake her urban past. As she and Agnes grow further apart, the bonds between mother and daughter are tested in surprising and heartbreaking ways."--Publisher description
Notes Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020
Subject Hunting and gathering societies -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Dystopias -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Wilderness areas -- Fiction
Air -- Pollution -- Fiction
Civilization -- Fiction
Genre/Form Dystopian fiction.
Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
ISBN 178607821X
9781786078216