The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein’ s The Trauma Cleaner:One Woman’ s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one woman responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural―and unnatural―catastrophes and fatalities.

Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts.

When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, founder of Specialized Trauma Cleaning (STC) Services Pty.

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to sift through the ashes or sweep up the mess of a person’ s life or death.