The Travel Writer

by Simone Lazaroo

London, late 1980s. Ghislaine de Sequeira lies in a hospital bed. Once an obituary writer in Malacca, she had practised eloquence in the face of death for years. But now she is dying, and it is her bereft daughter Isabelle's turn to articulate the meaning of a life at its end.
Isabelle tries to find an anchor in this storm by telling her mother's story and by seeking solace in her writing tutor, as many years ago her mother sought solace with the travel writer after the death of her own mother, Mathilde.

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Simone Lazaroo was born in Singapore. Her previous novels include award-winning The World Waiting to Be Made and The Australian Fiance. Her short stories have been widely anthologised both in Australia and internationally.