Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian author and freelance journalist. Her writing has appeared in Guernica,The Guardian and Griffith Review.
In Friends & Dark Shapes four friends move into a share-house in Redfern. Over the course of four seasons the group must navigate communal living as both a necessity of their late twenties existence and a reality of the increasing inaccessibility of the gentrifying city.
From toilet rolls and the dishwashing roster, share-house living is opened up and the reader is invited to navigate space in a city that is always shifting and seemingly forever out of reach.
Friends & Dark Shapes poses the question of who can belong. Whether through barbed wire fences or sky rocketing house prices home and belonging are strictly controlled and for many Sydney is a liminal space.
Ultimately though Friends & Dark Shapes is a gorgeous meditation on movement. The novel reflects on the ways we move through life, through relationships and yes through our city.
