Like a House on Fire

In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry sense of humour. In ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, a young woman working as a cleaner in a hospital helps an elderly patient defy doctor’s orders. Cate Kennedy’s poignant short stories find the beauty and tragedy in illness and mortality, life and love..