Published in 2025
313 pages
Andrea Goldsmith is an Australian novelist. She started learning the piano as a young child, and music remains an abiding passion. She initially trained as a speech pathologist and worked for several years with children suffering from severe communication impairment until becoming a full-time writer in the late 1980s. During the 1990s she taught creative writing at Deakin University, and she continues to conduct workshops and mentor new novelists.
What is this book about?
You burn your bridges
going into a foreign forest
Dorothy Porter
Three people form an unlikely but spirited connection. Adrian is a renowned scholar, an expert on death in the modern age whose life has stalled. Kezi, a young and passionate artist, has been rejected by her family. She hurtles through her days with defiance and regret. Laura is a successful town planner submerged in a seemingly perfect marriage.
In The Buried Life Andrea Goldsmith brilliantly dissects the conflicts and complexities of contemporary life in a story of love and friendship, faith and fundamentalism, subtly underscored by the power of poetry and music. You can stifle the past but it will breathe again.
“A rumination on death and the complexity of love from one of our nation’s most brilliant minds.” – Marieke Hardy
