Cate Kennedy is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection Dark Roots and the novel The World Beneath, as well as poetry collections and a travel memoir.
'For a volume that opens in a palliative-care ward and closes in a cemetery, you might expect it to provide a grim reflection of our state, but the craft and care behind the bulk of these stories produces quite the opposite result.' --Sunday Age'Judging by the work here, the present and future of Australian literary culture is in safe hands.' --Law Society Journal'These tales release such an emotional charge that it's hard to read more than one in a sitting.' --Hobart Mercury