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Clare Moleta grew up in Western Australia. Her fiction has been published in literary journals including Sport and Turbine | Kapohau and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. She has a Writing Diploma from Melbourne's RMIT and an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington, and her award-winning travel writing has appeared in the Herald on Sunday and AA Directions magazine, among others. She now lives in Wellington, Aotearoa.
'Reads like a thriller, is utterly convincing in all its invention, and kept a hard hold of me from beginning to end.' -- Elizabeth Knox, author of The Vintner's Luck 'Li is an unforgettable character, whose scars are as compelling as her extraordinary resourcefulness - she powers an urgent, heart-stopping novel.' -- Emily Perkins, author of Novel About My Wife 'Unsheltered is a fist-clenching, breath-holding, heart-accelerating reading experience. Clare Moleta writes with clarity and force, conjuring a terrifyingly real world of environmental and bureaucratic mercilessness, but also, vitally, one in which empathy, love and hope stubbornly persist. In temperamentally tenacious and teeth-grittingly tough Li, Moleta has created a heroine who is utterly believable in both her ambivalence about becoming a parent and in her single-minded determination to keep that child safe.' -- Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident 'An absolute banger of a novel ... beautiful and brutal ... It's a rare talent who can put both action and pathos on the page this well.' * Sydney Morning Herald * 'A tour-de-force ... superb ...This is a sensational debut.' * Readings Magazine * 'Outstanding. One of those novels that takes you by the scruff of your neck and drops you straight in ... You will grip this thread until your palms bleed.' * Australian Book Review * '[An] assured, propulsive debut ... which has the pace and momentum of a thriller and creates a world that feels both deeply authentic and productively enigmatic.' * The West Australian * 'Remarkable ... could well attain a cult-like fanbase and marks Moleta out as one of our most intriguing new literary talents.' * New Zealand Herald * 'This searing, dystopian tale ... keeps the tension up from the very first page. Li's hunt ... is engrossing, as a horror story is - we can't look away, even if we want to.' * Waiheke Weekender * 'A book of our time, confronting us with our shared humanity ... a call to action.' * Newtown Review of Books * 'I devoured Unsheltered in two bites, interrupted only by the sun setting. It was way too scary to read after dark.' * Newsroom *
