9/14/2023 0 Comments Grateful dead the raven space![]() Now Shel and Davy’s generation must pay the cost living low-tech, sustainable lives while the planet recovers. This strictly controlled world order is based on scientific analysis of the ability of the land to support human life following the climate-based disasters caused by earlier generations with their greed and disregard for the environmental damage they were causing. If anything from the honoured and natural world gets in, that’s on us. As Shel’s first person narrative states in the first chapter: They know that another closed township exists a distance away, but travel outside their compound is out of the question and one of their main priorities is the daily check of their sections of the fence for any breeches in its security. Their world comprises exactly seven hundred hectares enclosed within an impenetrable fence and populated by precisely three hundred and fifty kind, ethical people. Her neighbour and best friend Davy helps his family run a sheep farm. Shelby Jones, known as Shel by those closest to her, helps her dad manage a chicken farm. I think that the cover image by Joanna Hunt does full justice to the narrative’s imagery of two world’s colliding in a mystical space. Cover image by Joanna Hunt, published by Old Barn Books,Ī tale of survival, discovery and hope in a vividly imagined near-future where the population makes reparation for the climate crimes of the past, this new novel jointly written by an Australian and a New Zealand author is thought-provokingly brilliant. ![]()
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