The Living Sea of Waking Dreams'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age', James Rebanks In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window