The Hummingbird Effect
Kate Mildenhall
ISBN: | 9781760855284 |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
Published: | 2 August, 2023 |
Format: | Trade Paperback |
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The Hummingbird Effect
Kate Mildenhall
From the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault, an epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread – and their determination to shape their own stories. One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack has caught her eye – and she his. How is her life connected to Hilda’s, almost a hundred years later, locked inside during a plague, or La’s, further on again, a singer working shifts in a warehouse as her eggs are frozen and her voice is used by AI bots? Let alone Maz, far removed in time, diving for remnants of a past that must be destroyed? Is it by the river that runs through their stories, eternal yet constantly changing – or by the mysterious Hummingbird Project, and the great question of whether the march of progress can ever be reversed? Propulsive, tender and engrossing, this genre-bending novel is a feast for the heart as well as the mind and senses. For fans of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Michelle de Kretser’s The Life to Come and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, it confirms Mildenhall as one of the most ambitious and dynamic writers in the country.
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