There is More Space
by Rachel Morton

From the award-winning author of The Sun Was Electric Light comes a luminous novel about finding light in a world that seems filled with darkness.

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Overview

Utterly unmoored after the death of her partner, Rose has fled rural Victoria for Dingle, Ireland. As she forms tentative connections with Lacey, a local café owner, and Jakob, an older, free-spirited man, Rose finds herself turning back to her past – towards the darkness and dissatisfaction with the world that she has tried to keep at bay for much of her life.Moving between Australia and Ireland, the past and the present, There Is More Space is a deeply affecting exploration of the contradictions of the human condition: life and death, division and wholeness, isolation and connection. Told in Rachel Morton’s irresistible, plangent style, this searching novel is a lesson in alchemising darkness into light and coming to terms with the preciousness of life and the fullness of the human experience.

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Hannah Kent

‘Rachel Morton has that rare ability to articulate the deeply human and deeply complicated with prose so translucent you want to weep. "There Is More Space", ostensibly about a woman who travels to Ireland following the death of her partner, unfolds to quietly encapsulate the existential. Hypnotic in its honesty and grace, "There Is More Space" is absolutely sublime.’

Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton is a writer living on Eastern Maar/Gunditjmara Country in south-west Victoria. Her poetry has appeared in Meanjin Quarterly, The Moth Magazine and various other publications. Rachel was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry. The Sun Was Electric Light is her first novel and won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.