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Erica, whose son is in prison for a terrible crime, moves to a small coastal town to be near him, and sets out to build a labyrinth.
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Stone Yard Devotional
A woman who does not believe in God leaves her life in Sydney for a small religious community on the plains of New South Wales, and over the following years a plague of mice, the return of a long-missing nun's remains and a visitor from her childhood force her to face the past.
Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
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.
Shallows
In Angelus, a West Australian whaling town in its last season, Queenie Cookson joins the protesters against the whalers, while her husband Cleve reads the journals of her great-grandfather.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
Journey to the Stone Country
Annabelle Beck, leaving her marriage in Melbourne, goes home to north Queensland and travels into the hinterland with Bo Rennie, a Jangga man she knew as a child, to survey Aboriginal sites.
Dirt Music
Georgie Jutland, a former nurse living unhappily with a widowed fisherman in a West Australian coastal town, falls for Luther Fox, a poacher with a dead family and a guitar he no longer plays.
Please Look After Mom
When their sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway station, her husband and grown children search the city and realise how little they knew about her.
To the Islands
Heriot, an ageing missionary on a mission in the far north-west of Western Australia, believes he has killed a man in a rage, and walks out into the wilderness with an Aboriginal companion, Justin, towards the islands of the dead.
The Idea of Perfection
In the New South Wales country town of Karakarook, Douglas Cheeseman, a shy engineer sent to pull down an old bridge, and Harley Savage, a gawky museum consultant, are drawn to each other.
Ceremony
Tayo, a young Laguna Pueblo man, comes home from the Second World War, where he was a prisoner of the Japanese, sick in body and spirit, and looks for healing in the old ceremonies.