Cirrus@Austlit

'The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

'Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'As a child, Geraldine spent school holidays with her grandparents on their isolated country property. Her recollections are of halcyon moments filled with family and natural beauty. Years later, while visiting with her widowed grandmother, now living in town and struggling with the onset of dementia, Geraldine learns of a shocking secret that will forever change her childhood perceptions and memories of her grandparent’s home.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'It’s the 1970s. Nadia Comăneci, the teenage gym­nastic sensation, transfixes the world. In the outer suburbs south of Brisbane, life continues, sleepy and rural. But an acrobatic cow is on the loose, and the backhoes are heading for the farms. The city folk are moving south, and life will never be the same again.' (130)