The Hummingbird Effect
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The Hummingbird Effect

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Hummingbird Effect

About this book

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2024
Longlisted for the Stella Prize and Indie Book Awards 2024
Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year for 2023 One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy'sjuststarting out in life. She's a bagging girl atthe Angliss meatworks in Footscray, 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, lockedinside during a plague, or La's, further on again, asingerworking shifts in a warehouse as hereggs are frozen and hervoice 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 HummingbirdProject, 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 D avid 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. 'Kate Mildenhall is such an exciting writer to read … This generous, playful novel speaks to themes of climate change, survival and holding space for each other, as well as the enduring power of female friendship.' The Guardian 'Spellbinding, genre-defying, and powerful in its vision of the future … The Hummingbird Effect is a devastating novel that exposes the ways the future is seeded in the past.' Australian Book Review

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. 1. Before Now Next
  6. 2. Footscray, 1933
  7. 3. Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, 2020
  8. 4. Footscray, 2031
  9. 5. Newcoast, 2181
  10. 6. Hummingbird Projectā„¢
  11. 7. The Forest, 2181
  12. 8. Before Now Next
  13. 9. Footscray, 2031
  14. 10. Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, 2020
  15. 11. Footscray, 1933
  16. 12. Hummingbird Projectā„¢
  17. 13. The Inlet, 2181
  18. 14. Footscray, 2031
  19. 15. Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, 2020
  20. 16. Footscray, 1933
  21. 17. Hummingbird Projectā„¢
  22. 18. Footscray, 2031
  23. 19. The Island, 2181
  24. 20. Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, 2020
  25. 21. Melbourne, 1933
  26. 22. Before Now Next
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. About the Author
  29. Copyright