Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
‘Darkly funny, astute, timely’ Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep‘Powerful, restless, irresistible’ Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That CountryA 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 …
‘Darkly funny, astute, timely’ Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep‘Powerful, restless, irresistible’ Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That CountryA 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 …
‘Darkly funny, astute, timely’ Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep‘Powerful, restless, irresistible’ Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That CountryA 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 …
