Cirrus@Austlit

'In Briohny Doyle’s fourth book, a writer called BB has lost both her partner and father in close succession, and, in the aftermath of their deaths, experiences the first wave of pandemic lockdowns. Certain that further quarantine will see her petrified in viscous grief—that she will ‘crawl out of [her] share-house bedroom an old woman in a post-apocalyptic ruin’—she retreats to a beachfront rental above a condemned shop in the seaside area of Balboa Bay. Her plan is to heal by the ocean, ‘weightless and untethered for a short time’, before returning to real life.' (Introduction)