'Shows more clearly than anybody ever has how catastrophe, suffering and love can survive together in one little room.' Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Endurance links these small masterpieces. Winton's characters are ordinary people staring down the big challenges, the chafing frustrations, the random acts that lob across their path. They battle to make sense of things, to maintain loyalty against the odds. Their relationships strain under pressure, leaving them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves. 'Powerful, gut-wrenching stuff of the highest order … With wonderful and vivid accuracy he is able to pinpoint those excruciating moments when we face ourselves in the mirror, and do not smile.' The Age 'He sets the ordinary quivering.' Times Literary Supplement 'He has a poet's ear for the rhythms of the language … He is, above all, effortless to read … remarkable.' Peter Goldsworthy