Room for a Stranger — Melanie Cheng

Title: Room for a Stranger — Melanie Cheng

Author: Melanie Cheng

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback

Edition: First edition / first printing, 2019

ISBN: 9781925773545

Condition: Second-hand. Light shelf wear, minor marks to cover and page edges, with some gentle corner and edge wear. Spine appears clean and intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A warm, thoughtful Australian novel about unlikely friendship, loneliness and connection. At seventy-five, Meg Hughes lives alone with only her African grey parrot, Atticus, for company. Andy Chan is a university student under pressure, struggling with study, family expectations and financial stress. Through circumstances largely outside their control, the two end up sharing Meg’s family home.

Room for a Stranger explores grief, ageing, migration, isolation and the quiet ways people can change one another’s lives. It is a gentle but emotionally sharp story about two very different people forming a bond that becomes more important than either expected.