The Rewilding

Jagger Eccerman is on the run from his father and boss, his sidekick Ed, and his dangerous son. They are killers. He flees to the safety of a cave he shared with his mother in his childhood. They talked about the plants and nature. He didn’t think the cave would be his sanctuary for long but finding a wild and feral girl, Nia, living there, leaves him disorientated.

Nia hates him at first sight. He’s a suit and the money he offers her just goes to prove he’s a capitalist pig. When drones circle overhead, Jagger discovers that he is close to being dragged back to face the company fraud, and Ed has used him as the scapegoat. The other guy Nia brings into the cave doesn’t speak, he’s as jumpy as Jagger. They all flee in Nia’s eco-fuel bomb of a car. She drives like a maniac and takes him into the dangerous world of Rebellion fighters.

When Jagger meets Nia’s family he learns more about her and himself. 

Will they escape the bikers who are roughies from the mining company? If they do, are they able to escape from the clutches of Ed and his manic son? Can they overcome differences and be allies, friends, and lovers?

Novelist Donna M Cameron is an AWGIE, nominated radio dramatist, award-winning playwright and short film writer.

Her first novel, Beneath the Mother Tree, (2018) was listed as one of 2018’s top Australian fiction reads by the Adelaide Advertiser, was a finalist in the Screen Queensland/QWC’s Adaptable program and long-listed for the Davitt Awards. The manuscript of her second novel –The Rewilding, won her a 2020 KSP Fellowship, was runner-up in a 2020 Writing NSW Award and gained her a 2021 Varuna Fellowship. It will be published by Transit Lounge in March 2024.