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Juice

By: Tim Winton
Narrated by: David Field
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One of The Guardian's best sci-fi books of the year.

An edge-of-your-seat, post-apocalyptic thriller. Perfect for fans of The Last of Us, Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.

'Will stab your conscience and break your heart’ – Emma Donoghue
'A blistering cli-fi epic' – The Guardian

Survival is only the beginning.

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.

Problem is, they’re not alone . . .

So begins a searing journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.

©2024 Tim Winton (P)2024 Penguin Random House Australia Dystopian Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Survival Emotionally Gripping Exciting Heartfelt Scary

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Critic reviews

A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart (Emma Donoghue)
Some of the most high-octane thriller writing I’ve come across (Luke Kennard, Daily Telegraph)
Like some old-time saga, an oral epic told forward into history (Cynan Jones)
Forget the speculative fictions of melancholic environmental warning: the novel of bloody eco reckoning is here . . . Juice is in part a rare fictional study of revolutionary violence - its mentalities, possibilities and limitations (Tom Seymour Evans, TLS)
I absolutely loved it (Mel Giedroyc, Front Row, BBC Radio 4)
The prose is gorgeous, as you would expect from Winton, and a passion for our beautiful planet – alongside anger at what corporations are doing to it – burns red-hot throughout (The Guardian, Best Books of 2024)
Imagine 1,001 Nights narrated by Max Rockatansky (The Telegraph best fiction books of 2024)
Tim Winton is a deeply humane writer, concerned with moments of connection across divides, with a deep care for nature and an impossibly hopeful desire for humanity to succeed, together (Nikesh Shukla, The Guardian, 'If you only read one book this year . . . make it this one!')
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Tin Winton gets deep into his characters and draws and draws us into a gripping story. The world building is as good as any fantasy writer and the theme of "missions" to kill Billionaires and their families is chilling. The action scenes are as good as any thriller writer, with tension racked up to the maximum. David Field's narration is spot on, creating a aural landscape of the apocalypse. Bleak but brilliantly written and performed, it comes with a high recommendation from me,

A TENSE LITERARY THRILLER.

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fantastic story, great characters very gripping. overall well recommended book. love the accent of the narrator as well it's a bit different

exceptional

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loved the story, absolutely loved the narrator (who, in my head, looked like ange postecoglou, yes, he the manager of tottenham hotspur :)) and love tim winton. was sad it was over.

loved it

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A haunting cautionary tale about a possible future we might leave to our great grandchildren as our legacy. Well narrated, it’s easy to conjure mad max like imagery given the setting but it is very much a different type of story. Definitely worth a listen

Haunting sadness of a possible future

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Narrator has no variance in voice at all, all characters sound the same: male, old, miserable. No matter the age or gender of the speaker it was the same gravelly old man voice. Impossible to distinguish characters in conversation so difficult to understand. Story lost in the monotony.

Miserable

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Most of the story is a monologue narrated by the main character, but occasionally there’s dialogue between him and the Bowman who holds him captive, and unfortunately it’s sometimes difficult to know who’s talking.
Didn’t really detract much, and this audiobook was still a great listen, but it was occasionally distracting

Great story

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I have rather mixed feelings about this book. I didn't immediately take to it though it did draw me in more as I went on.
it's set in a post apocalyptic, globally overheated world. the scene is set by a rather clunky and confusing series of passages set at varying points in time, leaping around. gradually it makes sense a the main story takes shape.
this story is varied. some is straight narrative, some is scene setting, but the most interesting parts are the musings on the human condition, and our polices as individuals, families and societies. these latter parts are what give the book some substance and depth and give it value. however there are some clunky and indeed rather clichéd passages holding things together
as a whole the performance is good and easy to listen to. however cache and cachet aren't the same thing and are pronounced differently. the former appears repeatedly and is always pronounced as the latter, often enough to get a bit annoying. there are a couple of sporadic oddities too

post apocalyptic enquiry

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Great plot, great writing and great narrator. Will be listening to more by this author and narrator

Amazing

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I loved this story, which is a frightening vision of a world not so distant from ours.
I also enjoyed the narration. The reader has a great voice and delivers it well. BUT several words were mispronounced, and many of these words recur often. A cache of something is pronounced as in cash. Cachet is a completely different word, pronounced cash-ay. Dungarees are not dunjarees. And quite a few more. Does no one from the company listen to the recording before issuing it?

gripping from start to finish

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A bleak near hopeless account of what will happen if we continue blindfolded into environmental wreckage. Mad max style visual landscapes set to a story of revenge on those who profited from the fuel that set this fire burning. On the surface, at least. In the minds of survivors, a stubborn will to make do, eke a life, some kind of existence. It feels like an inevitable slow slide back into creatures of little consequence. Life on Earth ending how it began but by our own hands.

This is not a story of hope and silver linings. It’s not supposed to be. This is a different way of giving us a look back at the present, showing us what is happening to us right now. Or rather what we’re allowing to happen to ourselves because we are too caught up in the here-and-now to truly realise the scale of what’s going on despite all the signs. Our children’s children are not thinking kindly of us.

A compelling story. Sometimes the pace feels glacial but that’s what you buy into with Tim Winton. Like Dirt Music, the only other book of his I have read admittedly, I was happy to finish it, to be ‘done with it’. Yet the mood of that story continues to live in my mind many years later. I suspect Juice will do the same. It will live on angrily. I hope I will do more to ensure that this story remains just that.


A solemn angry letter from the future we ruined

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