Mantle

Mantle by Romy Ash is an eerily intimate work of speculative fiction that blends ecological dread with tender, darkly funny observations about bodies, land and belonging. Set against the volatile beauty of lutruwita/Tasmania, it’s the kind of literary novel that feels both strange and sharply familiar.

Ursula, a self-possessed geologist used to reading deep time, is called back to the coast when her mother falls ill with a baffling rash. As the sickness spreads across the island and beyond, Ursula becomes stranded in her mother’s house, drawn into a complicated connection with a younger man, and forced to watch her orderly sense of the world begin to slip. When the rash reaches her too, the ground under everything—grief, desire, even nature itself—starts to move.

Perfect for readers who like climate fiction, Australian literary fiction, and uncanny Tasmania-set stories that linger.

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