Queen of the North Forest

<p>Lin has her life laid out—college career husband child an apartment in Shanghai—neat complete and<br />predictable. That is until she finds herself in ancient Australia leading a messy mob of endangered animals<br />on a touch-and-go trek to safety. For help she has a large incontinent wombat a smart bandicoot a ravenous<br />kangaroo four fierce fighting birds and Arben a young man whose spirit and savvy upend Lin’s ideas about<br />love life and sacrifice.</p><p><br />‘Smart lively and entertaining. An extraordinary story - part romance part adventure - the student heroine gets sucked through a space portal to find herself out of her comfort zone and well out of smartphone range in a world of mega-marsupials some of which want to kill her while others need her help. She survives through resources of<br />toughness bravery and imagination she never knew she had - and the help of a young man who steals her heart.’<br /><strong>- Julie Postance author of <em>Breaking the Sound Barriers</em></strong></p><p><br />‘Exciting engrossing and unique. Many Australian stories ‘go bush’ and this one does too; but don’t go looking for squatters or sheep here. The young heroine is dumped into the Aussie bush soon after the arrival of the first people. She finds herself shepherding a herd of larger-than-life creatures toward a mysterious place while fending off unimaginable enemies the like of which she’s never seen.’<br /><strong>- Amanda J Spedding two-time Australian Shadows Award winner</strong></p>