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Everyday Madness

Susan Midalia

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English
Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
02 March 2021
This is an affectionate, insightful story about embracing life's speed bumps to find new meaning in everyday life.

Life sucks when you are a vacuum cleaner-salesman facing redundancy, and your wife of nearly forty years fills your days and nights with incessant chatter. But when Gloria suddenly and alarmingly stops talking, the silence is more than fifty-nine-year-old Bernard can bear. In desperation, Bernard turns to his ex-daughter-in-law for help. Meg has issues of her own, and her bright and funny daughter Ella sometimes wonders if her mum is trying so hard to keep her safe it stops them both from spreading their wings. Will Meg's suspicious nature thwart her chance encounter with the kindly but engimatic Hal? And is there still hope for Bernard and Gloria on the other side of silence?

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Imprint:   Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 205mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   290g
ISBN:   9781760990091
ISBN 10:   1760990094
Pages:   280
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan Midalia grew up in the Western Australian wheatbelt and has lived in Perth for most of her adult life. She is the author of three collections of short stories- A History of the Beanbag, An Unknown Sky, and Feet to the Stars. Her collections have been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Awards and twice for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. She retired from teaching in 2007 to become a full-time writer and freelance editor. Her first book, The Art of Persuasion, was published in 2018.

Reviews for Everyday Madness

'A poignant portrait of suffering within marriage and the ties that bind: wise, witty and humane.' -Gail Jones 'An engrossing, moving and beautifully observed story of marriage, family and forgiveness.' -Josephine Wilson


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