In these thirteen short stories, Georgia Blain examines human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges ; their longings and failures exerting a subterranean pull on the women in their lives.
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"Richly imagined characters . . . told with lovely restraint. The authenticity of the writing is such that you feel you are standing in the shoes of these characters whose lives are at a particularly intense point." "--Herald Sun"
"Richly imagined characters . . . told with lovely restraint. The authenticity of the writing is such that you feel you are standing in the shoes of these characters whose lives are at a particularly intense point." --Herald Sun
"Subtle, beautifully paced stories . . . a finely tuned collection, thoughtfully written and arranged, with profound and unsettling things to say about love, loneliness, and risk." -- Denise O'Dea, Australian Book Review
"Blain's achievement with the short story form is to render it a mid point between the overt artifice of fiction and the covert artifice of life-writing . . . her stories fill up with ambiguity . . . characterised by an irresolution that mimics the resistance of experience to shape and comprehension." --Stella Clarke, Weekend Australian
"Many adjectives have been used to describe Georgia Blain's work, including evocative, powerful, atmospheric, haunting, rich, thought-provoking, skilful, uncompromising and finely detailed--all of which apply to this collection of short stories." --Bookseller & Publisher
Georgia Blain is the author of a memoir, essays, short stories, and the novels Closed for Winter, Strange Times, Too Close to Home, and Darkwater, her first young-adult book. She has been short-listed for numerous awards, including the NSW and SA premier's literary awards and the Nita B. Kibble Award.
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