Fusion

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Conjoined twins Sea and Sabine live shut away in a cottage in the woods, deep in the Australian bush, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each are damaged but have found peace in the woods, and the three live in relative harmony and are largely self-sufficient. One day Wren discovers a woman on the road nearby, badly injured and unconscious. He brings her back to the cottage, and he and the twins nurse her back to health. But the arrival of this outsider changes the dynamic in the cottage, with unforeseen consequences.Lyrical and poetic, Fusion is a unique and powerful modern-gothic fairytale that has at its heart questions of selfhood, dependency and love.Conjoined twins Sea and Sabine live shut away in a cottage in the woods, deep in the Australian bush, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each are damaged but have found peace in the woods, and the three live in relative harmony and are largely self-sufficient. One day Wren discovers a woman on the road nearby, badly injured and unconscious. He brings her back to the cottage, and he and the twins nurse her back to health. But the arrival of this outsider changes the dynamic in the cottage, with unforeseen consequences.Lyrical and poetic, Fusion is a unique and powerful modern-gothic fairytale that has at its heart questions of selfhood, dependency and love.
Kate Richards is a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction and poetry. She has a medical degree with honours and works part-time in medical research in Melbourne. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Madness- a memoir and the Penguin Special Is there no place for me?