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 …
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- Hardback
- 210mm x 135mm
- 160 pages
- 9781761380396
- AUD$29.99
- 3 April 2024
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can), EU
- 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.’
‘[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.’
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.