Juice
17 October 2024Synopsis
One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of the year.
An edge-of-your-seat, post-apocalyptic thriller. Perfect for fans of The Last of Us, Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.
'Will stab your conscience and break your heart’ – Emma Donoghue
'A blistering cli-fi epic' – The Guardian
Survival is only the beginning.
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.
Problem is, they’re not alone . . .
So begins a searing journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.
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17 October 2024
9781035050598Reviews
Juice is a masterful story for the ages . . . There is anger and revenge to reckon with but Winton carries the reader all the way along. Juice is a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weepThe Guardian Australia
A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heartEmma Donoghue
Some of the most high-octane thriller writing I’ve come acrossLuke Kennard, Daily Telegraph
Like some old-time saga, an oral epic told forward into historyCynan Jones
