Thunderhead by Miranda Darling

Thunderhead

by Miranda Darling

‘Darkly funny, astute, timely’ Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep

‘Powerful, restless, irresistible’ Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country

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 …

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Thank you NetGalley and Scribe UK for the chance to read and review this book.

 

While Thunderhead is an excellent depiction on domestic violence and the forms it takes, the 109 pages should not be read lightly. The stream of consciousness style is well done but thats not an easy thing to read and requires a lot of focus; to be honest, had the book been longer I may not have finished it. That being said, it may an excellent jump back into this style or the type of focus needed for it if you're out of practice.

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