Fiction

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole

by Romy Ash •

February 2013, no. 348

Fourth Estate, $24.99 pb, 328 pp, 9780732293192

Fiction

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole

by Romy Ash •

February 2013, no. 348

‘I don’t mind all the broken things – sometimes I shift a chair outside when I think the house is overflowing, or when I can’t get to the kitchen cupboard or something – it’s the people that bother me. My dad collects broken people too.’

Romy Ash

By this contributor

Romy Ash is a Melbourne-based writer. Her first novel, Floundering, was shortlisted for the 2011 Vogel Award and will be published by Text Publishing in early 2012. She has written for the Big Issue and Frankie magazine. She writes a cooking column for Yen magazine and the blog Trotski & Ash.