Or the unstable, overly sensitive kids, always going on about Miss Barker and her amazing sticker system. It’s not just the communion-wine-guzzling friar prone to mad rants about how cancer is caused by demons. Their Miss Barker up and vanished in the night, despite being the most caring teacher ever, according to everyone. Luckily, Eleanor discovers Talbingo, a remote little town looking for a primary-school teacher. The next thing she knew, her breast was being dissected and removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was suddenly deluged with cupcakes, judgy support groups, and her mum knitting sweaters. One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. a masterly world-builder." -Melissa Maerz, The New York Times Book Reviewīridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her "A horror novel about a breast cancer survivor told in the voice of your funniest but most anxious friend, The Bus on Thursday is an appealing mix of genres that is both fluffy and deeply affecting at the same time." -Maris Kreizman, Vulture
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