The New Wilderness

Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness imagines a future ravaged by climate collapse, where a mother and daughter join a rewilding experiment. The novel blends dystopian speculation with ecological reflection and maternal devotion. Cook explores the cost of survival, the meaning of freedom, and the limits of human intervention. Her prose is spare yet evocative, attentive to landscape and moral ambiguity. The book questions whether returning to nature is an act of hope or denial. It is haunting, urgent, and quietly unsettling.