\'Striking...brilliantly done\' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.
Anna\'s aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it.
But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful novel about hope, love and orange-bellied parrots.\'One of our greatest Living novelists\' Washington Post.
All Anna can do is keep her mother alive.
She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices.
Forced by their pity to stay alive, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
When Anna\'s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. \'Striking...brilliantly done\' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.
Anna\'s aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it
