That my life won't even start, and that I'll be stuck like this forever.Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change.
But Nyx and Bea don't realise how special their tree truly is. Bea, too, finds solace in the tree, and facing a move to the mainland herself, leaves a despairing note, wedged into a hole in its trunk. She seeks solace in the single surviving tree near her home - an 80-foot pine that has defied all odds.
Nyx's father wants them to leave while they still can but, for Nyx, West Hobart is all she's ever known, and where her mother is buried. With sea-levels rising, and the land deforested, over-mined and affected by bushfires and drought - Tasmania is increasingly marooned, i. Two of Australia's most acclaimed and high profile writers co-author a sensitive and ultimately hopeful story about our growing climate crisis.
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