Leaning Towards Infinity — Sue Woolfe

Title: Leaning Towards Infinity
Author: Sue Woolfe
Publisher: Vintage (Random House Australia)
ISBN: 0091832284
First Published: 1996

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Noticeable edge wear and light creasing to covers, including a small crease to the front corner. Pages clean and binding solid.

Winner of the 1996 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Leaning Towards Infinity is a distinctive and ambitious Australian novel that blends literary fiction with ideas of mathematics, obsession, and identity.

The story centres on Frances Montrose, a self-taught mathematical genius, as seen through the eyes of her daughter. What unfolds is less a traditional narrative and more a layered, experimental exploration of memory, intellect, and emotional inheritance.

Sue Woolfe’s writing is inventive and unconventional, shifting between voices and forms to reflect the fragmented nature of thought and experience. It’s a novel about brilliance and isolation, and the cost of living inside one’s own mind.