Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home. Bea knows that to save Agnes she must leave the city and learn to survive in the vast, unexplored Wilderness State. Extraordinary and urgent, this is a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.