EAN: 9781474617000

THE PERFORMANCE - CLAIRE THOMAS KARTONIERT (TB)

'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too
highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original  at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation
on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood  author of The Weekend'A miracle... Engaging
and evocative'Washington Post'I loved and admired The Performance... Unmissable'Emma Stonex 
author of The Lamplighters'Lively and intimate... The way Thomas plays with the reader is a
sort of genius'Guardian'Thomas writes these women with such wisdom and compassion  that by the
end we are all transformed'Claire Fuller  author of Unsettled Ground The false cold of the
theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world  the ash air pressing
onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.The house lights lower.The
auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness.As bushfires rage outside the city  three women watch
a performance of a Beckett play.Margot is a successful professor  preoccupied by her fraught
relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past  distracted
by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher  anxious about the safety of her
girlfriend in the fire zone.As the performance unfolds  so does each woman's story. By the time
the curtain falls  they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.

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