How do you put into words a story that makes your heart heavy with sorrow and full of love, joy, and compassion at the same time? I’d have a hard time formulating an answer the question “what is it about?”. I’ve been chewing on this review for days and I’m sure I won’t do this one justice. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction.īeautiful, emotional, and perfectly narrated. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Literature. 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. 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. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. A woman who lives with rats, random debris, and terrified delusion. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for 40 years. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.
but as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. In media interviews, she was extraordinarily candid about her abusive childhood, her previous work as a drag queen, sex worker and funeral director, and transitioning to Sandra in the 1980s.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. Pankhurst went on to become a motivational speaker while continuing to run her successful business STC Services, which specialised in cleaning premises after homicides and suicides and clearing the homes of hoarders and illegal methamphetamine manufacturers. It won multiple awards including the Victorian prize for literature and the Douglas Stewart prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary awards for non-fiction. Pankhurst became something of a celebrity after Krasnostein’s book on her life became a bestseller in 2018.
She’s a spectacular and incredibly empathetic person.” “The relationship started as a lawyer and client but it developed into a much broader and more diffuse friendship. “She passed away after an extraordinary life with her family around her and her dog Moet,” Matisse Mitelman said.
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