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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 The Thinning
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'A powerful literary page-turner about two young people in a race against time to reach a monumental solar eclipse, from famed Australian novelist Inga Simpson'

'We haven't always lived like this . . .'

'Fin grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her mother and father, then leaders in their fields of astrophotography and astronomy. Those days are long over. Now Fin, her mother, Dianella, and a band of outliers live deep off the grid, always on amber alert and always ready to run.

'In the outside world, things are not good: extinctions and a loss of diversity threaten what's left of the environment. With a new disaster looming, Fin finds herself thrust into an unlikely partnership with a stranger who has appeared in their camp. Terry is one of a new breed of evolved humans, the Incompletes, who are widely distrusted. But the pair will need to work together during a dangerous journey if they are to play their part in a plan to help restore the natural world - and humankind.

'The Thinning is both an exquisitely written novel of nature and urgent psychological suspense by the bestselling and acclaimed author of WillowmanThe Last Woman in the World and Mr Wigg.'  (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2024 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published October 2024

      ISBN: 9780733643514

Works about this Work

The Thinning by Inga Simpson Review – Apocalyptic Thriller Offers Glimpse of a Better World Catriona Menzies-Pike , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 November 2024;

— Review of The Thinning Inga Simpson , 2024 single work novel

'Two teens embark on a race against time across a ravaged Australia in this stunningly wrought dystopian novel'

The Thinning by Inga Simpson Review – Apocalyptic Thriller Offers Glimpse of a Better World Catriona Menzies-Pike , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 November 2024;

— Review of The Thinning Inga Simpson , 2024 single work novel

'Two teens embark on a race against time across a ravaged Australia in this stunningly wrought dystopian novel'

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