Fireweather

From the author of the acclaimed Thunderhead.

It all began when they started running away ...

Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad ...

In this looking-glass world, Winona is forced to prove she is a sane, rational human being. As the pronouncements of the professionals grow more insistent, so too do the voices crowding inside Winona's head. She seeks solace in the company of plants and animals, and begins to imagine an entirely other way of being - one that might make whole her broken heart.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Darling
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.09.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781917189040
• ISBN: 978-1-917189-04-0
• Pages: 160
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