They were standing indecisively in front of the pasta when a woman and her three sons came around the end of the aisle and stopped near the rice. One of the boys was Shaun Gilmore, and Danny saw him look up, noticed the sudden flicker of recognition. Immediately Danny felt his chest tighten. “How...
She had family back in Hobart to look after, so one morning Granddad loaded her bags into the back of the truck and drove her to Launceston to catch the train home. Before she went she gave me a long hug. She looked a lot like as lightly older version of my mother, and I found myself closing my e...
He’s not very good, but he doesn’t care. Once, at Uncle Tony’s fiftieth birthday, he broke a karaoke machine. He reckoned it wasn’t his fault, but these are the facts: it was about his sixth song, he was singing loudly (and badly) when the speakers suddenly went pop and bang, a whole bunch of blu...
It was huge, larger than the largest pavilion at the Show. Against one wall were deep couches and armchairs, with coffee tables between them on which were large round bowls of lollies and chocolates. Through one door Edsel saw a room lined with computers and game consoles and giant screens, and t...