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The second novel from the Sri Lankan Australian writer Ayesha Inoon begins on a boat on the open ocean. After a Tamil militant organisation orders seven-year-old Janu and her family to leave their home in Jaffna, the capital city of Sri Lanka's Northern Province, they are forced to flee, crossing the Indian Ocean to Australia in the hopes of a safer life. To Janu, the novel's central character, it seems as though the journey will never end.

‘Intensely physical and rich with detail’: Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe. Composite: Guardian Design/Sally Flegg/UQP How do we deal with the loss of a life never lived? As with her first two novels, Night Blue and The Sitter, Angela O’Keeffe’s latest book uses an unconventional narrator to tell a beautifully layered story about human creativity, connection and longing. At the centre of Phantom Days is Isabel, a woman in her mid-30s.