Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy (9781921942952)

Description - Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In Laminex and Mirrors, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor s orders. In Cross-Country, a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her ex s new life. And in Ashes, a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his father s remains, while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedy s poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love."

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