Cirrus@Austlit

'The constants in our lives are our defining seasons, amid the relational and expressive collage which is the formative relationships which are equally us. We are our people, our seasons, our times, our perceptions. Every day is different, but our seasons are constants. Summer is the illustrative season of Australia, as Winter is for Scandinavia, or Autumn for New England. Year of Days: Summer transcribes the depth and reality of Australia through relationships across Summers, the impermanent meeting the unchanging.'  (Publication summary)

'Love and the soul transcend chronology - through art, literature, memory, faith, we meet and inhere with ideas and the delicate threads of people's lives across expanses of history. Minds elide and coalesce across years and centuries. In England and France, in the dark early months of 1918, a young Australian soldier encounters remarkable women from widely different places on the arc of time. Traumatised by years of relentless savagery and injury, he finds himself facing hope and eternity with courage, tragic force, profound closeness and sacrificial trust in ultimate grace.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.