A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter
Diane Cook is a novelist and short story writer. Her collection, Man v. Nature (Oneworld, 2015), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Tin House and Granta, and been anthologised in Best American Short Stories. The New Wilderness is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn.
'The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful
in equal measure.' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station
Eleven and The Glass Hotel
'Soulful, urgent... Supremely well-crafted... What lingers, though,
beyond the awesome power of Bea and Agnes as heroines, is pure
wonderment at all in this world of ours that is not human.'
Observer
'Wonderfully imagined and written, this is a tense future-shock
novel that's also a tender exploration of a mother-daughter
relationship under extreme pressure... An urgent novel reflective
of what is happening in society right now.' Booker Prize
judges
'A wildly imaginative and terrifying dystopian story...
Touching on humanity and our contempt for nature, this is a timely
and compelling novel.' Independent
'This Booker-longlisted novel's driving questions – who will
live and who will die? And which kind of leadership will triumph
along the way? – remind us, in a compelling fashion, why we
read at all: to learn how better to survive.' New
Statesman
'A visceral, elemental performance... Dense with believable
detail.' The Sunday Times
'Riveting... Bleakly compelling, and leavened by wry, sparkling
humour that Cook combines seamlessly with existential
dread.' Daily Telegraph
'This gut-wrenching story of survival, danger, power, control and,
most importantly, love is one you won’t want to put down.' CNN
'This Booker-longlisted novel’s driving questions – who will live
and who will die? And which kinds of leadership will triumph along
the way? – remind us, in a compelling fashion, why we read at all:
to learn how better to survive.' New Statesman
'It is the anthropological acuity in Cook's writing that makes it
so persuasive… The chief power of The New Wilderness, and what
distinguishes it from less successful environmental dystopian
fiction, is Cook’s talent for world-building.' TLS
'Cook leavens her satire with sly wit and real wisdom, expertly
deconstructing the borderline separating human beings and other
animals.' Guardian, 'Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
2020'
'Cook's is a fresh and vivid voice; it's unsurprising the likes of
Miranda July and Roxane Gay are fans.' Observer
'Cook has a keen eye for the relentless weigh-ups of parenthood...
The tale of a hazardously self-denying lifestyle pursued on health
grounds, it has uncanny resonance.' Metro
'Urgent and inventive... This quietly raging novel deserves its
place on the Booker longlist. People who switch off when they hear
the phrase "climate change" should read it. And so should everyone
else.' Irish Times
'As close to experiencing a Picasso as literature can
get.' Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife (on Man V.
Nature)
'A big book full of characters and rich in imagination... The only
debut novel on the shortlist that never feels like one.' Irish
Times
'5 of 5 stars. [A] gripping, fierce, terrifying examination of what
people are capable of when they want to survive in both the best
and worst ways. Loved this.' Roxane Gay
'A damning piece of horror cli-fi, but it's also a gripping and
profound examination of love and sacrifice.' BuzzFeed
'The New Wilderness left me as stunned as a deer in
headlights. Gut-wrenching and heart-wrecking, this is a book that
demands to be read, and urgently.' Rachel Khong, author
of Goodbye, Vitamin
‘Propulsive... The New Wilderness is a well-formed and
powerful piece of writing.’ The Times
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