'You burn your bridges
going into a foreign forest
Dorothy Porter
'Three people form an unlikely but spirited connection.
Adrian is a renowned scholar, an expert on death in the modern age whose life has stalled.
'Kezi, a young and passionate artist, has been rejected by her family. She hurtles through her days with defiance and regret.
'Laura is a successful town planner submerged in a seemingly perfect marriage.
'In The Buried Life Andrea Goldsmith brilliantly dissects the conflicts and complexities of contemporary life in a story of love and friendship, faith and fundamentalism, subtly underscored by the power of poetry and music.' (Publication summary)
'Adrian is a professor at a top Australian university and his specialty is death. He lectures on it, writes books on it. Both his parents died when he was a child, one by suicide, but those are long-forgotten events that have nothing to do with his life’s work.' (Introduction)
'Adrian is a professor at a top Australian university and his specialty is death. He lectures on it, writes books on it. Both his parents died when he was a child, one by suicide, but those are long-forgotten events that have nothing to do with his life’s work.' (Introduction)
