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From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots.

About the Author

Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don't Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. She lives on a secluded bend of the Broken River in north-east Victoria.

Reviews

'Cate Kennedy is among the very best of short story writers ... bewitching.'
*Ballarat Courier*

'This is a heartfelt and moving collection of short stories that cuts right to the emotional centre of everyday life.'
*Bookseller & Publisher*

'Short fiction at its best.'
*Instyle Magazine*

'Cate Kennedy's anger is a cleansing fire. Her stories ache with small mercies — tender, life-affirming, real.'
*Hilary McPhee*

'One of the world's finest short-story writers'.
*Robert Drewe*

'Cate Kennedy writes with the warm understanding and cold precision of a master.'
*David Malouf*

'Cate Kennedy is a singular artist who looks to the ordinary in a small rural community and is particularly astute on exploring the fallout left by the aftermath of the personal disasters that change everything.'
*Irish Times*