Forest winter -- No memory comes -- Gravity -- The water was darek and it went forever down -- Nilsam's friend -- Minimum of two -- Distant lands -- Laps -- Bay of angels -- The strong one -- Holding -- More -- Death belongs to the dead, his father told him, and sadness to the sad -- Blood and water
Summary
Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves