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Fireweather
Fireweather | Miranda Darling
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A continuation of the acclaimed novel Thunderhead, Fireweather follows Winona Dalloway as she struggles to come to terms with the unrecognizable world around her. Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad ... In this looking-glass world, Winona is forced to prove she is a sane, rational human being. As the pronouncements of the professionals grow more insistent, so too do the voices crowding inside Winona's head. She seeks solace in the company of plants and animals, and begins to imagine an entirely other way of being--one that might make whole her broken heart.
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11-22 Oct 2025
A well-executed yet uncomfortable sequel to the wonderful Thunderhead. I loved Thunderhead, but could not say I loved this. Winona returns, divorced and granted only supervised access to her children due to her husband‘s construction of her questionable sanity. For me, the disintegration/deconstruction of her mental state echoed the many women throughout literary history who refused to conform: such as Mrs Rochester and Ophelia.