Room for a Stranger is Melanie Cheng's follow-up to the prize-winning Australia Day. She has been lauded as “astonishingly deft and incisive” by Christos Tsiolkas and “sharp and sympathetic” by Jennifer Down. She speaks with Ailsa Piper about a novel that unfolds the seemingly ordinary lives of an elderly woman and struggling student living under the same roof to reveal the complex and important truths about connection and home. 

Room for a Stranger is Melanie Cheng's&nbsp;follow-up to the prize-winning Australia Day. She has been lauded as &ldquo;astonishingly deft and incisive&rdquo; by Christos Tsiolkas and &ldquo;sharp and sympathetic&rdquo; by Jennifer Down. She speaks with Ailsa Piper about a novel that unfolds the seemingly ordinary lives of an elderly woman and struggling student living under the same roof to reveal the complex and important truths about connection and home.&nbsp;

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