'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the
voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this:
within the Wall you are perfectly safe.' Christine could not sleep,
she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half-blind, at
the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was
keeping them safe from the dangers outside, an outside world she
would never see. She never imagined questioning what she was told,
what she was allowed to know, what she was permitted to think. She
never even thought there were questions to ask. The enclave was the
only world she knew, the world outside was not safe. Staying or
leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then
Christine dared start thinking . . . and from that moment, danger
was everywhere. In our turbulent times, Claire G. Coleman's Enclave
is a powerful dystopian allegory that confronts the ugly realities
of racism, homophobia, surveillance, greed and privilege and the
self-destructive distortions that occur when we ignore our shared
humanity. 'A brilliant, engrossing, necessary read' COURIER MAIL
'Much of this novel feels frighteningly plausible ... Coleman's
world shimmers on the page like a heat haze' ARTS HUB 'If you liked
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale or Charlotte Woods' The
Natural Way of Things, this one is clearly for you' SYDNEY MORNING
HERALD 'The book holds up a thoughtful mirror showing us to
ourselves using an all too real future' KILL YOUR DARLINGS 'Enclave
is a novel that inclines towards hope ... offers us an alternative:
a world in which people, in meeting the demands of the present with
curiosity, courage and conviction, can bring about a more just and
inclusive future' NEW DAILY 'Coleman can turn a deft phrase ... She
writes a mean chase sequence, ramping up the suspense when she
wants, with fight scenes and great narrative propulsion' THE AGE
'Coleman offers an urgent critique of bigotry and, implicitly, of
colonialism, writing with conviction about the ways technology can
be misused by those in power, but also how it might be deployed for
good. Indeed, despite its dystopian tenor, Enclave is ultimately a
hopeful novel, and one which suggests it is far from futile to
aspire to a better future' MANJIMUP-BRIDGETOWN TIMES 'If Margaret
Atwood's dystopian Handmaid's Tale ignited a spark, you'll rip
through Claire Coleman's new novel like a forest fire' MARIE CLAIRE
'She is toying with the canon, but also placing menacing signposts
of the unsustainability of the settlement's brutal, exclusionary
politics. Enclave is a clarion shout against demonising the
unfamiliar, and the temptation to withdraw into a bubble' THE
GUARDIAN
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