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In these compelling stories, Pippa Kay introduces you to many families. Meet the boy who loses his little brother while playing cricket with his family, the grandfather reunited with the first girl he ever kissed, and the girl who loses her mother in the fog. Share the journey with the French tourist who finds family in Kyogle. Go back in time and meet a barmaid and her grandmother who claim they can get away with murder. Go forward in time and meet the survivors - a father and daughter searching for other survivors.
This book won the Society of Women Writers Book Awards 2018 for Fiction.
The thing that unites the stories, despite their variety, is their light touch. Though they range from gritty to whimsical, there is nothing heavy-handed in any of them. Some of the stories deal with subjects that would be lurid in the hands of a less disciplined writer, but are told here with understated realism. Pippa Kay lets her characters, several of whom are children, speak for themselves, and their voices are never stagey. (Janita Cunnington)
“A delightful, emotional and compassionate set of short stories which plays with relationships, memory, and the stories families construct about themselves and each of their members.
Kay deals with big issues in this book: death, ageing, love, hate, belief, uncertainty. Each story gives us a different slice of family life, so that by the end we feel we have lived many lives.”
SWW Book Awards Judge, Pamela Freeman.
This book tells a tragic story that started in Manly, Australia Day, 1986 when Megan Kalajzich was shot as she slept beside her husband in their family home.
Pippa Kay probes the murder of Megan Kalajzich and subseuent conviction of her husband, Andrew. Did he do it? She presents a thorough and balanced examination of the evidence and witnesses presented to the Inquiry into his conviction.