'Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.' Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, The Submerged Cathedral is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall; of faith, sacrifice and atonement;...
Stephen had never liked to admit how soothed he was to walk the streets of Longley Point, how velveted by silence he was, how the moneyed suburb’s gentility allowed his body to soften and forget itself. It was only in Fiona’s suburb that he realised how physically alert he was to violence in his ...
A special car came to pick him up and we stood on the kerb outside the front fence to wave him off and, for reasons I couldn’t fathom, laughter bubbled up in my throat, weird hysterical giggling. My mother looked across at me with disbelief, her own face blotchy and swollen with crying. Later, du...