Juice

Juice is a masterful story for the ages . . . There is anger and revenge to reckon with but Winton carries the reader all the way along. Juice is a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weepThe Guardian

A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heartEmma Donoghue

Winton delivers it all in clean and unaffected prose. The twists are plausible and devastating, including several ingeniously subverted sci-fi tropes. The love story and mother-son dynamic have emotional and psychological depth. At first, I’d anticipated something like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, but Winton’s novel is stoic rather than nihilistic – a furious hymn to resilience, unsentimental and hard-wonLuke Kennard, Daily Telegraph

Like some old-time saga, an oral epic told forward into historyCynan Jones