Cirrus@Austlit

'Weather, beasts and death. That’s what Hannah’s mother writes of in the letters she sends. They arrive in London from Australia and Hannah ignores them for as long as she can. “Every time a letter from her arrives, I lose my breath, as though some tiny venomous bug might spring from it. [The letter] has sat unopened since I brought it upstairs, stuffed into the cupboard next to the fuse box where I don’t have to look at it. But I feel it like a heat from the corner of the room.”' (Introduction)