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Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, has moved into a retirement village to be left alone, and his neighbour Jan refuses to let him.
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The Correspondent
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies who is losing her sight, has written letters all her life, to her brother, her friends, authors she admires and people she disagrees with, and through them an old grief comes to the surface.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
Iza's Ballad
After her father's death, a well-meaning Budapest doctor brings her widowed mother to live in her modern flat and slowly dissolves the old woman's place in the world.
Skylark
An ageing provincial couple send their plain daughter to relatives for a week and discover, in her absence, a life they had hidden even from themselves.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
The Optimist's Daughter
A woman returns to Mississippi after her father's death and has to contend with his young second wife and her own memories of home.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
A Quiet Life
When their novelist father takes a teaching post in California and their mother goes with him, twenty-year-old Ma-chan is left in Tokyo to keep house for her younger brother and her mentally disabled older brother, Eeyore, who composes music.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
The White Girl
In a small Australian country town in the 1960s, Odette Brown, an Aboriginal grandmother raising her granddaughter Sissy, sees the new policeman taking an interest in the girl's fair skin.
Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney, newly retired from the tennis school she ran with her husband Stan for fifty years, disappears without her phone, and as police start to look at Stan, their four grown children remember the stranger who turned up on their parents' doorstep one night the year before.