Thunderhead
By (Author) Miranda Darling
Scribe Publications
Scribe Publications
3rd April 2024
Australia
General
Fiction
Hardback
160
Width 144mm, Height 217mm, Spine 20mm
334g
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 ...
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; Thunderhead is her fifth book.