Sydney Writers’ Festival is coming to your neighbourhood! In her environmental thriller, The Thinning, Australian author Inga Simpson explores humanity’s complex relationship with nature.
The story follows Fin, who grew up near an observatory and now lives off the grid with her mother, Dianella, amid environmental chaos and biodiversity loss. As a new disaster approaches, Fin teams up with a stranger from the mistrusted Incompletes, embarking on a perilous journey to restore the natural world and humanity.