Thunderhead

‘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 …

Reviews

‘[A] chillingly sophisticated novella … Thunderhead is an innovative, smartly hewn dissection of a mother’s mental load … Darling writes her story with a ferocious sensitivity … it all builds to a thunderous (pun intended) denouement that you’re unlikely to forget anytime soon.’