Getting on 1948 -- Unchained 1956 -- The lie Paul Carmody told Hazel 1960 -- Ned's daughter 1972-73 -- Naming 1974 -- The light 1976 -- Diseased 1980 -- Happy Haven Holiday Park 1992 -- Unsaid 1999 -- Rendezvous 2005 -- Dodgy narratives 2012 -- Leaving Elvis 2013 -- Can of worms 2016 -- Acknowledgements.

We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat. A man returns from World War II and struggles to come to terms with what has happened in his absence. Almost seventy years later, his middle-aged granddaughter packs up her late grandmother's home and discovers more than she had bargained for. These two stories book-end thirteen closely linked stories of one family and the rippling of consequences across three generations, played out against the backdrop of a changing Australia.