The Only Constant

Price includes postage Australia wide.

‘Dorothy quietly nods and picks up every word into each powder blue stitch so that by the time the bus pulls into Mudgee where her son-in-law is waiting to take her the rest of the way to Rylstone, the level of Angela’s reservoir of grief is lowered. There is space for air.’

Heading back to her parents after her first home is flooded in the 2011 Brisbane disaster, Angela finds an unexpected source of comfort; while in another place and time, 12 year old Katie deals with the consequences of an event a year before at the local show.

In everyday settings including an office, a bookshop and a farm ravaged by drought, the characters in these eight stories have to find their own way of coping with change.

With stunning illustrations by Suzanne Hicks, The Only Constant, is a new collection from a gifted storyteller.

Praise for The Only Constant

‘She has a rare skill of conveying a story with a simple and beautiful economy of words.’ Alice Pung author of One Hundred Days.

‘The thing that hooked me with this book of shorts is the unexpected switch of voice and tone from one story to the next leaning in on moments that are distinctively Australian with a voyeuristic turn of phrase that nails moments I’m sure I can remember being in.’ Julie Proudfoot Passages of Writing.