A novel of survival
It's nine o'clock on a perfect Queensland morning.
Amy is pushing her baby's pram along the Coolum boardwalk, her four year old scooting ahead. Her husband Mark is waiting for a haircut a few suburbs away. At the Bureau of Meteorology in Brisbane, Nikki is trying to do mindfulness.
Then the ocean starts going the wrong way.
When a tsunami of catastrophic scale hits the Sunshine Coast without warning, Amy has minutes to get her two young children to high ground - on foot. Mark is trapped at sea level with his barber and no car. And Nikki, watching the data cascade across her screens, knows the first wave won't be the last.
Set over a single devastating day on one of Australia's most loved coastlines, The First Wave is a relentless, real time thriller about ordinary people making impossible decisions. About the gap between a warning sent and a warning received. About how fast everything you know can disappear.
And about what it takes to survive when the ground itself stops being solid.
