![]() ![]() ![]() Flanagan wants us to be disturbed, to be alarmed but he also offers us on the last page one of the most hopeful paragraphs I have ever read." This is a quiet book, you can’t rush it - Flanagan’s prose is elegant and full of beauty. This magical realism serves to highlight our apathy, our impermanence. Off-putting at first Anna quite quickly adapts to and accepts her new norm. Mimicking this vanishing Anna starts to lose body parts, they simply vanish. The environment, climate change and extinction are all themes threaded throughout this novel. ![]() The pain she is witnessing is reflected outside the walls of the hospital – Tasmania is burning. Her daughter Anna sits beside her bed watching over the slow horror of her mother’s dying. Not from spite or hate, but a complicated love and inability to let go. Her three children surround her hospital bed and for a range of complex personal reasons they decide, against all medical advice that their mother must live. ![]()
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