“Wanting is what destroyed the world, they are told in the run-up to “the Collapse”.
THE HUMMINGBIRD EFFECT
by Kate Mildenhall (Simon & Schuster, $37.99)
Australian novelist Kate Mildenhall proves once again she’s highly adept at writing about the world to come. In her new novel, the author of the near-future The Mother Fault delivers a stark warning about what might be ahead if climate change and humankind’s greed go unchecked.
is set in four periods following the lives of four women living in 1933, 2020, 2031 and 2181. In each case, they are witnessing progress they are fearful of. Interspersed in their
