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Mantle hardback But can they stand theMantle by Romy Ash is an eerily intimate work of speculative fiction that blends ecological dread with tender, darkly funny observations about bodies, land and belonging. Set against the volatile beauty of lutruwita Tasmania, its the kind of literary novel that feels both strange and sharply familiar. Ursula, a self possessed geologist used to reading deep time, is called back to the coast when her mother falls ill with a baffling rash. As the