Hear Sarah Krasnostein discuss her award-winning book The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster at Canberra Writers Festival.
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhust was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman and a trophy wife. This internationally acclaimed book is the result of four years of research by Sarah Krasnostein into the remarkable life of Sandra Pankhurst. This is a compelling story that is extraordinarily written about both the dead and the living. Sarah is in conversation with the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Angus Trumble.