"It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: a zine maker, activist, disaffected artist, part-time rugby league player - each looking to build a future, each haunted by their recent past.But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould. Set across the course of a year, against the backdrop of pandemic and war, of climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate documents the struggle against generational confusion and social malaise. When isolation and atomisation are all we've been given, what can be built from common ground?"--Back cover.

Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlist 2024