In this bestselling book, Sophie Cunningham writes about what happened over the year that followed Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, shattering thousands of lives. She tries to capture the texture of the city, journeying into her own recollections of the city she grew up in and its history.
Sophie Cunningham is the author of six books, her most recent being City of Trees, a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019, Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to literature.