A storm is brewing, both literal and metaphoric, in “the suburbs of the east”. In a burst of poetic and darkly humorous prose, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead unleashes the turbulent interior life of its protagonist, Winona Dalloway, onto the page.
Darling’s Mrs Dalloway appears 100 years later than Virginia Woolf’s original, which takes place in June 1923. At 35, she’s a good 16 years younger than Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway, and she lives in Sydney (seemingly in Queens Park, Rose Bay or Vaucluse). She is a writer of “Romantic Fiction”, mother of two boys and married to a wealthy professional.
