Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the
Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's
Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and
wide. From adolescent brothers marooned at an indifferent relatives
cottage, to a Depression-era Ukrainian immigrant reading the
drought-parched skies above Palliser's Triangle, to two friends trying
to make sense of feminism in the eighties, Adderson captures her
characters' cadences, conflicts, and consolations, their individual
burdens and the mysteries they share. Adventurous, often funny, and
impeccably researched, these stories chart their lives with compassion
and intelligence.