![]() ![]() This is a beautiful meditation on love, family and the world we live in. When Anna’s finger vanishes, followed by her knee, she begins to see others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. Condemned by their pity, she increasingly escape through her hospital window into visions of horror and light. ![]() The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan (14 Jan)īooker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan returns with a story of a family facing death against a backdrop of climate change and global catastrophe.Īnna’s aged mother is dying, if her three children would allow her to do so. What if, asks Audrain, motherhood is everything you feared instead of everything you hoped for? But Blythe’s husband, Fox, thinks she’s imagining everything, and doesn’t understand how Blythe’s childhood experiences have shaped her. It follows Blythe Connor, whose first child Violet is demanding and fretful, to the point where Blythe thinks there is something wrong. Ashley Audrain’s debut novel is a compulsive and addictive read about motherhood, which looks at what happens when women are not believed. ![]()
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