You burn your bridgesgoing into a foreign forest Dorothy Porter Three people form an unlikely connection in The Buried Life.Adrian is a renowned scholar. An expert on death in the modern age, his life has stalled.Kezi, a young and passionate artist, has been rejected by her family and fundamentalist community. She hurtles through her days with defiance and regret.Laura is a successful town planner submerged in a seemingly perfect marriage.Andrea Goldsmith brilliantly dissects the conflicts and complexities of contemporary life in a story of love and friendship, faith and fundamentalism, underscored by the power of poetry and music. You can stifle the past but it will breathe again. A novel about death and life, Melbourne, Mahler, poetry and cheese. Goldsmith writes so well about friendship, her characters come to feel like your own friends. Andrew Ford A rumination on death and the complexity of love from one of our nation’s most brilliant minds.Marieke Hardy