When we are invisible

When we are invisibleThe sequel to Claire Zorn's acclaimed debut The Sky So Heavy. A heart stopping dystopian YA set in the Australian bush. Instinct has kept us alive so far. It's like a compass and I tune in to the needle often trust don't trust, run stay . . . I can't read the needle right now. The warmth of the room is clouding my judgment. In the midst of a nuclear winter, Lucy, Fin and Max flee the chaos of Sydney with blood on their clothes, a gun and handwritten

condiments and baked goods

They are the ˜bunch of strays

But the witch in the Forest

capturing the humour

and the lives of everyone she loves at risk

ecological destruction

there are simple truths that can guide us

Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist What was lost in the collapse: almost everything

spun like myth

'Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes

Will Ophelias talents as a reader be enough to avoid the traps of her increasingly formidable enemies

haunted and alone