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rorymcneill 's review for:
The New Wilderness
by Diane Cook
Here's an extract from my short review on The Publishing Planet website.
"Diane Cook begins The New Wilderness as she means to go on, with the harrowing and raw image of Bea discarding her still-born child, Madeleine, in the ground. Soon after, you’re hit with the reality that the wilderness is situated within a stark world, nearby an overdeveloped metropolis and a dangerous climate. The wilderness is in fact the only remaining protected land in the world. The humans in The Community are in survival mode, holding shockingly little thought to those they lose along the way – that’s just life in the wilderness, you learn.
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The discordance between the recognisable elements of this world, be they social or physical, and life in the wilderness is delightfully strange. A Booker Prize shortlister, no doubt for Cook’s eloquent prose and vivid world-building, The New Wilderness is fearless and absorbing, making us ponder whether humans will ever be able to exist alongside nature."
http://thepublishingplanet.com/2021/02/cli-fi-highlights/
"Diane Cook begins The New Wilderness as she means to go on, with the harrowing and raw image of Bea discarding her still-born child, Madeleine, in the ground. Soon after, you’re hit with the reality that the wilderness is situated within a stark world, nearby an overdeveloped metropolis and a dangerous climate. The wilderness is in fact the only remaining protected land in the world. The humans in The Community are in survival mode, holding shockingly little thought to those they lose along the way – that’s just life in the wilderness, you learn.
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The discordance between the recognisable elements of this world, be they social or physical, and life in the wilderness is delightfully strange. A Booker Prize shortlister, no doubt for Cook’s eloquent prose and vivid world-building, The New Wilderness is fearless and absorbing, making us ponder whether humans will ever be able to exist alongside nature."
http://thepublishingplanet.com/2021/02/cli-fi-highlights/