Susie Greenhill
Award Winning debut author of The Clinking
- Lutruwita / Tasmania
Photo by Tamzen Brewster
The Clinking
In the not-too-distant future on the island of lutruwita, where the seas glow blue with bioluminescence and ancient forests wither in the heat, a young family are caught in the eye of a storm.
As an ecologist working on extinctions, Tom knows the world he loves is unravelling around him. He cares deeply for his wife Elena, a journalist, and their daughter Orla, but he is haunted by disappearing species and the news of bushfires, floods and famine. Elena can only watch as Tom's grief consumes him. And then one day, Tom vanishes.
Alone, Elena asks herself, 'How can I be a mother to my child in this world?' In the remote south-west wilderness, she sets out to find answers and the hope she needs for herself and her daughter. But is there hope left to find?
From Richell Prize winning debut author Susie Greenhill comes a tender and profoundly moving exploration of life and loss.
Published by Hachette
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"A stunning and devastating debut...
This beautiful novel cuts deep - and leaves an open wound"
The Guardian
"Lyrical and Moving"
Good Reading Magazine
"This is sublime writing. A poignant and compelling search for hope in everything we're losing, everything we've lost."
Ben Walter
Author
Praise for
The Clinking
'"Exquisite.
A lesson in how to look with clear eyes at the historical moment we're living through - and at the destination to which we're headed"
Danielle Wood
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"Irrational, beautiful hope...
The Clinking demonstrates with its tender yet insistent call for us to pay attention to this fragile world."
Australian Book Review
On Greenhill's short stories
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"Greenhill's fiction is unlike any I have encountered in its luminous effectiveness."
Louise Westling
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Environment
"Powerful and inventive... This is so great I can't wait to see what she writes next."
The Australian
"Extraordinary!!"
Pete Hay
Author
"Electric and profoundly affecting"
The Richell Prize
​On Seven Stories: A collection of short fiction by Tasmanian writers, Edited by Ben Walter
"On the evidence of Seven Stories, something exciting is happening in Tasmanian writing, something fresh and daring. The book... announces the future, a new generation of writers who, you sense, will shape much of how we come to see ourselves, and how others will come to see us."
Richard Flanagan, author