Juice

Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal, writing movingly about the way it isolates the protagonist . . . Despite its raw grief and pain, Juice is not a nihilistic book. Instead, it insists on the necessity of hope even in the face of insurmountable odds, and on the notion that our survival depends on our capacity to care for one another. It also goes further, especially in the extraordinary final pages, which offer a vision of what it might be to reject the desire for dominance and surrender to the world as it is.

James Bradley, The Spectator

Electrifying, sobering, grimly compelling . . . Juice is an act of hope, a belief in persuasion, in the power of stories.

Julia Baird, ABC Online

A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep.

Tara June Winch, Guardian

Juice, Winton has said, means “human resilience and moral courage”, and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece.

Nicola Abadee, Sydney Morning Herald

Exciting . . . ambitious . . . Juice breaks new ground to face the climate emergency.

Tracey Nearmy, The Conversation

A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, JUICE will stab your conscience and break your heart.

Emma Donoghue

This is page-turning stuff, gripping and awfully gratifying . . . Winton’s ending is a masterstroke, the heart-in-your-mouth final chapter one of the best things I’ve read in a long time.

Rachel Seiffert, Guardian (UK)

A searing but essential look at Earth after the human-induced apocalypse. Too real to be true. Too true to be real.

Bob Brown

Every machine-tooled sentence is its own reward . . . the sheer length of the novel becomes its greatest pleasure. Winton drives Juice towards its conclusion with a narrative force that feels almost cyclonic.

Geordie Williamson, The Australian

A must-read masterpiece from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.

Stephen Romei, Saturday Paper

Full of surprises and stunning originality.

Simon Smart, ABC Online

Blistering . . . propulsive, addictive.

Joe Rubbo, Readings

Some of the most high-octane thriller writing I’ve come across . . . 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. Winton’s novel is stoic rather than nihilistic – a furious hymn to resilience, unsentimental and hard-won.

Luke Kennard, The Telegraph (UK)

An indictment of all those future-eating fossil fuel corporations that continue to profit at the expense of humankind.

The Age

A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of "climate fiction" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it.

Emily H Wilson, New Scientist (UK)

Thrilling . . . utterly absorbing.

Claire Adam, Irish Times

Instant classic . . . in a class of its own.

Australian Women’s Weekly

A profound as well as an enthralling novel.

Australian Book Review