{"product_id":"thunderhead","title":"Thunderhead","description":"\u003cb\u003eA black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd meanwhile, a storm is brewing ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e is edgy black comedy and sports real-time internal monologue meticulously describing one day of domestic purgatory ... Darling's whip-smart short novel creates a strong narrative voice spiked with caustic wit, intertextual reference, and intelligent humour. It's formidably brilliant feminist fiction that sparks a compelling conversation with its literary forebears, Woolf in particular.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Cameron Woodhead, \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Set over one fever-pitched day ... It's a daring book, adopting the aesthetics of Deborah Levy with the velocity of a crime thriller and an off- kilter voice, deeply internal, darkly comic, clipped and Woolf-ish ... \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e brims with magazine- style musings - all those dizzying top notes, that intertextuality, the style. It's a strong, complex and self-aware voice, and it is the primary vehicle through which we gauge Winona's resilience and determination. If \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e were instead penned by a domestic violence survivor, it might read a little like \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e. For fans of Melissa Broder, Elizabeth Hardwick and Edwina Preston.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Mel Fulton, \u003ci\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'A feminist triumph and homage to Virginia Woolf, Miranda Darling's \u003ci\u003eThunderhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a potent exploration of suburban entrapment for women.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Cassandra Atherton, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Miranda Darling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516611330109,"sku":null,"price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781761380396.jpg?v=1787563484","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/thunderhead","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}