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Mantle by Romy Ash review – an exquisitely wild and exhilarating vision of the near future

Thirteen years after her celebrated debut, the author returns with a bizarre, evocative work that merges science and the surreal

Romy Ash’s debut novel, Floundering, has sat on my bookshelf since the Sydney Morning Herald, where I worked as literary editor, named her as one of the best young Australian novelists in 2013 – the year she was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award among others.

The Australian author Cate Kennedy wrote of the neglected young brothers in Floundering: “These boys are so real you will lie awake worrying about them” – words so true that I still feel anxious for them.

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Apr 24, 2026 Fiction Books Culture

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