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How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system?Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done?In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwe...

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural-and unnatural-catastrophes and fatalities.Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, ...

For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a choir on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating journey to find out why people need to believe in absolute truths and what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not. Ghosts. UFOs. The literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people would like to. Dyin...

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Reveals the extraordinary work of Sandra Pankhurst, who brings order and care to the living and dead who are sometimes unseen and forgotten, including a person who has stayed inside for decades, a man who bled to death in his lounge and a woman who lives alongside rats and debris.

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This is the biography of Sandra Pankhurst - a former gender reassignment patient, businesswoman and trophy wife who went on to find purpose cleaning and organising the environments hoarders felt confined by, or that people abandoned leaving consequent disarray. An uplifting story of the attempt to apply order in the face of adversity.

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural-and unnatural-catastrophes and fatalities.Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, ...