This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we
return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories.
It considers many lost towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone
Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in NSW, the inundation of
Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from
other countries, the clearing of neighborhoods for freeways and the
everyday circumstances that force people from their land. It establishes
how important the places we live in are, and how much we grieve when we
lose them.