Claire Thomas is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she has taught for many years.
Claire Thomas is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she has taught for many years.
One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all.