Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)

A widow's snow -- An uncommon occurrence -- The turn -- The news -- Things -- Speak the words -- The mohair coat -- Legacy -- Thirty years -- Cutting the cord -- The golden hour -- Death of a friend -- New skins -- Tying the boats -- The new bride -- These ordinary nights -- The memory bones -- All the perfumes -- Portal -- The way it sounds -- The painting.

A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O'Callaghan. 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'.