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Mantle (Romy Ash, Ultimo)

Tuesday, 17 March 2026    Books+Publishing
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Romy Ash’s Mantle is a novel that settles slowly and irrevocably, like sediment. Set on a windswept Tasmanian coastline, it follows Ursula as she returns to care for her dying mother, Delores, in a house perched between land and sea. What unfolds is a meditation on inheritance, environmental precarity and...

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