{"product_id":"9781761424946","title":"The Hummingbird Effect","description":"Author: Kate Mildenhall \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761424946 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Australia \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 7.795in x 5.039in \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescripition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Mother Fault\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards 2024\u003cbr\u003e\n Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003e\n Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024\u003cbr\u003e\n Longlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e Best Reads of the Year for 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n 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 in Footscray, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack has caught her eye – and she his.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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?\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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?\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cb\u003ePropulsive, tender and engrossing, this genre-bending novel is a feast for the heart as well as the mind and senses. For fans of D\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eavid Mitchell’s \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, Michelle de Kretser’s \u003ci\u003eThe Life to Come\u003c\/i\u003e and Jennifer Egan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e, it \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003econfirms Mildenhall as one of the most ambitious and dynamic writers in the country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n '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.'\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n ‘Spellbinding, genre-defying, and powerful in its vision of the future … \u003ci\u003eThe Hummingbird Effect \u003c\/i\u003eis a devastating novel that exposes the ways the future is seeded in the past.’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45475759980702,"sku":"HPC-9781761424946","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761424946.jpg?v=1747884782","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761424946","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}