Author(s): V. C. Peisker

Historical Fiction

If you'd already died five times, would you be scared to die again? If you lived six lives, what would you learn?This novel in six novellas contemplates life, death, love, sex, gender, ageing, war and politics through a gallery of diverse characters deftly placed in a variety of historical settings from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Australia. Awaiting her final, natural death, 21st-century Francesca looks back on her previous lives with tough-minded clarity and humour, finding that there's always a price to pay for being her own woman. Francesca's lives and deaths will keep you reading till the end.Shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, 2023. "A beautifully realised novel that opens up the dimensions of life and how it is to be a woman." - judges' comments.