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Title:
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (MP3)
Written by:
Sarah Krasnostein 
Read by:
Rachael Tidd 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
9 hours 17 minutes 
MP3 size:
401 MB 
Published:
October 28 2018 
Available Date:
October 28 2018 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489460790 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian; Emotional Wellbeing; True Crime 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Audible audio 
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Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2018
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction 2018
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018
Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2018
Shortlisted Dobbie Literary Award 2018
Longlisted Walkley Book Award / Non-Fiction 2018

Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. You've got to hear Sandra's incredible story.

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife … But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead – and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

'[Sandra] is one of the most extraordinary characters you will ever find in a work of non-fiction … The Trauma Cleaner is a disturbing and fascinating read with a heavy, beating heart at its centre … [Krasnostein] shows how a writer can empathise and engage with a subject yet still paint a realistic portrait.'
The Australian

'Through countless encounters with the fetid, the neglected, and the downright tragic, Parkhurst has found meaning and peace, and [author] Krasnostein a singular subject whom she approaches with well-deserved awe.'
Booklist

'Krasnostein's playful yet heartfelt debut is one of the most arresting works of biography you will read in a long time.'
The Guardian