num_pages: 288
description: From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In Laminex and Mirrors a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctors orders. In Cross-Country a jilted lover manages to misinterpret her exs new life. And in Ashes a son accompanies his mother on a journey to scatter his fathers remains while lifelong resentments simmer in the background. Cate Kennedys poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality life and love.
language: English
title: Like a House on Fire
publisher: Scribe Publications