20 years ago the world went quiet. Father is stranded between
the living world and the lost. He saw the end and he can’t let it go.
Finn was a child when it collapsed. He’s a young green vine growing
up through the ribcage of a lost civilisation.
It’s 2053, Father and Finn live alone in a remote valley in Tasmania.
Everything is about to change.
A story of survival, of being lost and finding ourselves again,
and the love between a father and son.
Eat My Shadow
Book One of an Australian dystopian series.
Meet Finn, a twenty-two year old who remembers nothing of civilisation, and Father, the etymologist, whose love of words permeates the book; Akiva, the tattooed girl; Tatiana, the Russian warrior mother; Eamon (The Demon), who uses an abandoned city as a canvas for his vandalistic art and to parkour. Button Up Buttercup, a lost child; Natalie, the crippled librarian who protects books from a mutant form of silverfish eating through human history. And Alan Winchester, the last prime minister of Australia, who was once overheard saying, ‘Climate change and talk of mass starvation don’t worry me; as far as I’m concerned, they can eat my shadow and swallow my echo.’
Eat My Shadow is a hybrid of dystopian sub-genres, grim-dark and hope-punk. It’s an immersive book of love and humanity, with a cast of characters readers will never forget.
Chapter 4 – Hegira. Download a pdf, mobi, or epub here
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*Contains spoilers!
Gently illustrated throughout.
ISBN: 9780645514209 – Paperback RRP: $26.95
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I’ve done a lot of things, some of it well, some of it not. I tend to hold on to the not and never look twice at what I’ve achieved. I know a lot of things, not the least of which is I know bugger all. And it took more years than I like to contemplate learning to put tact before honesty.
I’m an Earth Worshipper, no religion, just an abiding love for this beautiful world and whatever years that remain will be spent in deep appreciation and contributing to efforts to save it from our excesses.
Linda Cockburn lives in Tasmania on a small acreage with her partner and son in a hand-built straw bale house. She’s best known for torturing them in Living The Good Life – How One Family Changed Their World From Their Own Backyard, Hardie Grant 2006, writing for ABC Organic Gardener Magazine, founding Seed Freaks, a rare heirloom seed company, and working in the community.
