Published in 2024
109 pages
3 hours and 33 minutes
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, specializing in non-traditional security threats. She has published both fiction and nonfiction; Thunderhead is her fifth book.
What is this book about?
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 …
