![]() ![]() ![]() This is the situation that Bea and her five-year-old daughter Agnes find themselves in at the beginning of the novel. In the context of this, mankind has ceased to be important. Living in ‘The City’ in squalid, increasingly crowded settings, they breathe in the toxic air that is the result of years of environmental neglect. Overpopulation has made attitudes towards human life apathetic at the very least. “The Wilderness,” described to the reader as an undefinably large stretch of natural land, is a protected space, inhabited only by animals and governed by officials in a last bid to protect what is left of the natural world, after the devastation of global warming. Told through the metaphor of a mother and child relationship, The New Wilderness is a brutal story of time running out. Set in a dystopian future where only three locations exist - “The City,” “The Wilderness” and the mysterious “Promised Lands” - Diane Cook sets up an apocalyptic landscape where climate change and global warming has destroyed the world in which we know, haunted by humans, their habits, and the memories of what came before. ![]()
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