A terrorist attack destroys the world's only stable food supply as humankind grapples with the harsh realities of climate change in 2051.
Decades after being in power, former Prime Minister of Australia Bruce Kilmore faces the consequences of his climate inaction, leaving his family to drown in his wake. The fate of humanity is foisted upon two people and their families: Bruce's daughter, Helen, a climate activist and vaccine researcher, and Champei a high school graduate from Cambodia.
Champei and her father Nisay find their peaceful lives are upended by growing political tensions caused by climate change, and they are left in a desperate international struggle for freedom, safety and identity. Helen and her mother Julie, a doctor and former First Lady, have to pick up the pieces of a family shattered by their patriarch's catastrophic political ambitions as the world is divided in a contest between starvation and sovereignty.
About the author
Jacob Page is the Australian author of "The Starving Planet", a climate fiction thriller that touches on the harsh realities of a planet starved of what it needs to survive. Jacob's writing touches on themes of queer identity, trauma, mental health and human rights.