Migrations

An extraordinary novel… as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I’ve ever read.

Emily St John Mandel

A lovely, haunting novel about a troubled woman’s quest to follow the last surviving Arctic terns on their southerly migration. As she tries to make peace with the ghosts of her painful past, she must choose whether she herself wants – or deserves – to survive, in spite of everything she, and all humans, have destroyed and lost.

Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only the Animals and In the Garden of the Fugitives

This novel is enchanting, but not in some safe, fairytale sense. Charlotte McConaghy has harnessed the rough magic that sears our souls. I recommend The Last Migration with my whole heart.

Geraldine Brooks

The Last Migration is a wonder. I read it in a gasp. There is hope in these pages; a balm for these troubled times. McConaghy's words cut through to the bone.

Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets we Kept

A work of first-rate climate fiction, also a clever reimagining of Moby-Dick … Sea yarns have been the exclusive literary domain of men for far too long, and McConaghy deserves extra credit for sounding the oceanic depths of the female soul.

New York Times

This is a unique specimen: If worry is the staple emotion that most climate fiction evokes in its readers, The Last Migration — the novelistic equivalent of an energizing cold plunge — flutters off into more expansive territory.

Los Angeles Times

A visceral experience, full of beauty and strength that shines through the anguish.

The Booktopian

An aching and poignant book, and one that’s pressing in its timeliness.

Fiona Wright, Guardian

McConaghy creates a detailed portrait of a woman on the cusp of collapse, consumed with a world that is every bit as broken as she is. The Last Migration offers a grim window into a future that doesn’t feel very removed from our own. In understanding how nature can heal us, McConaghy underlines why it urgently needs to be protected.

Time

When grappling with ecological collapse on a global scale, the stakes are literally epoch-ending, and in McConaghy’s hands, they are matched with the kind of heart-in-your-mouth high drama that pushes a reviewer to read long past lights out.

Sydney Morning Herald

The Last Migration moves at a fast, exciting clip, motored as much by love for 'creatures that aren’t human' as by outrage at their destruction.

Wall Street Journal

Stunning… The Last Migration was written for the Earth’s wild creatures. Franny Stone is a compelling character… an Ishmael of sorts.

The Australian

Gripping, tender and beautifully done. This novel is as intimate as it is urgent – you emerge thrilled but dazed, but also galvanised to save the planet.

Anna Funder