Quietly transformationalThe Times A tour de force... I cant recommend this too highlyPatrick GaleInnovative... an original, atasitting readDaily MailA potent meditation on the intensity of womens livesCharlotte Wood, author of The WeekendA miracle... Engaging and evocativeWashington PostI loved and admired The Performance... UnmissableEmma Stonex, author of The LamplightersLively and intimate... The way Thomas plays with the reader is a sort of geniusGuardianThomas writes these women with such wisdom and compassion, that by the end we are all transformedClaire 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 womans story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.

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