You can only write a book if you’re
under the illusion that the world needs this novel, and that no-one has quite
written this novel before.
Thomas Keneally
Summary
Beginning in the Barossa Valley,
Manna moves to Sydney via the Blue Mountains.
Returning to South Australia,
the reader is flown to Heard Island
and then to the Lake Eyre
region. The sequel to Carbon Century,
the unifying theme of Manna is genetic manipulation.