The Road, only better.

Climate change has wreaked unholy Mad Max havoc onto Australia's landscape, and those trapped on the wrong side of the Great Dividing Range are Unsheltered. Refugees, left to survive the Weather.

This is Li's story of being Unsheltered, her desperate trek across the country to find her daughter Matti after they are separated.

Obviously a commentary on the way we treat refugees in this country and the bleak future we have if we continue to do nothing to mitigate climate change, the journey is still profoundly moving and thought provoking. Once you get used to the writing style (reminiscent of The Road), with dialogue slotted in without any indication and stops and changes in the timeline following the protagonists train of thought, only then can you truly have your chest ripped open by the stark bleakness of this dystopian world.

Very well written. Great Australian fiction