$29.99 AUD

Thunderhead is edgy black comedy and sports real-time internal monologue meticulously describing one day of domestic purgatory … Darling's whip-smart short novel creates a strong narrative voice spiked with caustic wit, intertextual reference, and intelligent humour. It's formidably brilliant feminist fiction that sparks a compelling conversation with its literary forebears, Woolf in particular.’

Cameron WoodheadThe Sydney Morning Herald

Thunderhead

$29.99 AUD

Thunderhead

Overview

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free.

When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.

On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, teeming with voices — a mind both wild and precise.

And meanwhile, a storm is brewing …

Details

Format
Hardback
Size
210mm x 135mm
Extent
160 pages
ISBN
9781761380396
RRP
AUD$29.99
Pub date
3 April 2024
Rights held
UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can), EU
Other rights
Bold Type Agency

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Praise

‘An uncomfortable black comedy that centres on coercive control and domestic violence, it’s impossible to look away.’

Justine HydeThe Saturday Paper

‘[This] darkly comic novel is a biting, hilarious and original take on motherhood, suburbia and domesticity … Thunderhead will hit the mark for fans of novelists such as Melissa Broder, Miranda July and Jenny Offill plus, of course, Cusk herself.’

Melanie KembreyThe Sydney Morning Herald
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About the Author

Miranda Darling is a writer, poet, and co-founder of Vanishing Pictures. She read English and Modern Languages at Oxford then took a Masters in Strategic Studies and Defence from the ANU (GSSD). She became an adjunct scholar at a public policy think tank, specialising in non-traditional security threats. She has published both fiction and nonfiction.

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