Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is wasting away, ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home. Bea knows she cannot stay in the city, but there is only one alternative: The Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming, untamed land is untouched by mankind. Until now. Somewhere between a science experiment and a refugee, Bea and Agnes slowly learn how to live in this unpredictable, often dangerous land. But as Agnes embraces this radically free new existence, Bea realises that her bond with her daughter will be tested in ways she could never have 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.

Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter

About the Author
Diane Cook's fiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Grantaand Tin House. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn.


Book Information
ISBN 9780861540372
Author Diane Cook
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oneworld Publications
Publisher Oneworld Publications
Weight(grams) 492g