A review by jager123
A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop

5.0

Telling the innermost stories of survivors of the catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires this book is best described as an exhalation. I felt like I was reading with held breath, tasting the miasma swirling with disintegrating ash, broken dreams and devastating grief. The reader is given blissful moments of light finding its way through the haze that I think will stay with me for some time.
“The women dream in amber, now, of cracked Coonara glass’.
It is a hard subject being based in recent history but is beautifully written.