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'An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault.
'One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a bagging girl at the Angliss meatworks, a place buzzing with life as well as death, where the gun slaughterman Jack has caught her eye – and she his.
'How is her life connected to Hilda’s, almost a hundred years later, locked inside during a plague, or La’s, further on again, a singer working shifts in a warehouse as her eggs are frozen and her voice is used by AI bots? Let alone Maz, far removed in time, diving for remnants of a past that must be destroyed? Is it by the river that runs through their stories, eternal yet constantly changing – or by the mysterious Hummingbird Project, and the great question of whether the march of progress can ever be reversed?' (Publication summary)
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- Large print.
Works about this Work
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[Review] The Hummingbird Effect
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 165 2023;
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel -
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall Review – a Genre-defying Epic
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 11 August 2023;
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel'Spanning 1933 to 2181, this ambitious novel explores the future of humanity through the lives of a few women, zeroing in on capitalism, AI and violence'
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Beginning Again : Kate Mildenhall’s Powerful Third Novel
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 28)
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel'Spellbinding, genre-defying, and powerful in its vision of the future, Kate Mildenhall’s third novel, The Hummingbird Effect, interweaves four matrilineal narratives that span the years 1933 to 2181. Set in Footscray and its surrounds, including the Meatworks, Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, and a futuristic Forest/Inlet/Island, the novel explores the central concern of ‘unmaking the world’ in order to ‘begin again’.' (Introduction)
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Beginning Again : Kate Mildenhall’s Powerful Third Novel
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 28)
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel'Spellbinding, genre-defying, and powerful in its vision of the future, Kate Mildenhall’s third novel, The Hummingbird Effect, interweaves four matrilineal narratives that span the years 1933 to 2181. Set in Footscray and its surrounds, including the Meatworks, Sanctuary Gardens Aged Care, and a futuristic Forest/Inlet/Island, the novel explores the central concern of ‘unmaking the world’ in order to ‘begin again’.' (Introduction)
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The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall Review – a Genre-defying Epic
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 11 August 2023;
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel'Spanning 1933 to 2181, this ambitious novel explores the future of humanity through the lives of a few women, zeroing in on capitalism, AI and violence'
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[Review] The Hummingbird Effect
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 165 2023;
— Review of The Hummingbird Effect 2023 single work novel
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2024 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover designed by Design by Committee.
- 2024 longlisted The Stella Prize
- 2024 longlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
- Footscray, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,