Sustenance

Sustenance

UWA Publishing is proud to publish the thrice winning WA Premier's Award winning novelist's fourth book, Sustenance, a compelling contemporary thriller set in Bali.

"Nothing about that sun-washed July morning suggested to the cook at the Elsewhere Hotel that by evening everyone there would think differently about their lives."

In a small hotel on an island renowned for its hospitality and beauty, the Balinese staff and their Western guests are unexpectedly taken hostage. During the overnight siege, the hotel's cook is compelled by the crisis to provide spiritual and physical sustenance as best she can to the guests, staff and their poorly nourished captors.

The even has a different impact on each and every person, but all will view life differently from this day forward. Reflecting on individuals' struggles to find meaning and love in the face of death, Sustenance is a compelling novel that reveals surprising ways in which people redeem themselves through fear and grief.

Simone Lazaroo was born in Singapore and migrated with her family to Western Australia in 1963. All three of her published novels have won the Western Australian Premier's Prize for Fiction. Her first novel The World Waiting to be Made also won the T.A.G. Hungerford Award and was highly commended in The Australia Vogel Literary Award. Her subsequent novels are The Australian Fiance and The Travel Writer. Simone has a PhD in Writing and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald described Lazaroo as having, "a mercurial imagination, a gift for satire and wry intelligence."

Sustenance
UWA Publishing
Author: Simone Lazaroo
ISBN: 9781742580715
Price: $32.95