One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of the year.
An edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.
'Will stab your conscience and break your heart’ - Emma Donoghue, author of Room
'A blistering cli-fi epic' - The Guardian
Survival is only the beginning.
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now. This is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.
Problem is, they’re not alone . . .
So begins a searing journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.
"Juice is a masterful story for the ages . . . There is anger and revenge to reckon with but Winton carries the reader all the way along. Juice is a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep" - The Guardian Australia
"Winton’s new novel is no dream. It lies before us, a must-read masterpiece from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers" - The Saturday Paper
"Full of surprises and stunning originality . . . Winton poses a tantalising and urgent question" - ABC
"A narrative force that feels almost cyclonic" - The Australian
"This is a thrilling ride across an all-too imaginable landscape and a terrible cautionary vision. Magnificent" - Mail on Sunday
"Utterly absorbing . . . It's a thrilling story of survival and adventure, and a dark glimpse into our world's possible future" - Irish Times
"Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal. . . Despite its raw grief and pain, Juice is not a nihilistic book. Instead, it insists on the necessity of hope even in the face of insurmountable odds, and on the notion that our survival depends on our capacity to care for one another" - Spectator
"For fans of The Road, this is a chunky novel to immerse yourself in — an epic story of the struggle to survive" - Evening Standard
"Juice, Winton has said, means “human resilience and moral courage”, and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece" - Sydney Morning Herald
"Moving and beautiful . . . In the wrecked world Winton imagines, perhaps it is finally only machines who can live with what we still call honour" - Financial Times
"A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of "climate fiction" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it" - New Scientist
"A sweeping epic, that’s gripping and extraordinarily well written . . . this is a labour of love for Winton that’s well and truly paid off" - Daily Mirror
"Winton can switch expertly from a thriller-like account of one of the Service’s assassinations to an account of how our man unexpectedly found love" - The Times
"This is page-turning stuff, gripping and awfully gratifying . . . Winton’s ending is a masterstroke, the heart-in-your-mouth final chapter one of the best things I’ve read in a long time." - The Guardian