In Iain Reids second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, severe climate change has ravaged farms across the north, leaving behind wildfire-charred wasteland. A man and his wife live a solitary life on one of the last remaining farms, raising chickens and canola plantswhile also working at the feed mill. Their private existence is disturbed the day a stranger comes to the door, with a very strange demand. And so, the man finds himself conscripted as one of the first groups of people looking to settle elsewhere and a replacement will join the mans wife on the farm while hes gone. In the vein of Iain Reids debut Im Thinking of Ending Things, this equally shocking sophomore novel explores the delusions of people trapped in claustrophobic, rapidly declining environments, and is, of course, told in Reids sharp and evocative style.