The New Wilderness

Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and
pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home is
ravaging her lungs. Bea knows she cannot stay in the City, but there is only
one alternative: The Wilderness State. Mankind has never been allowed to
venture into this vast expanse of untamed land. Until now.

Bea and Agnes join eighteen other volunteers who agree to take part in a
radical experiment. They must slowly learn how to live in the unpredictable,
often dangerous Wilderness, leaving no trace on their surroundings in their
quest to survive. But as Agnes embraces this new existence, Bea realises that
saving her daughter’s life might mean losing her in ways she hadn’t
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
from a celebrated new literary voice.