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9780702263460

If You're Happy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780702263460

  • ISBN10:

    070226346X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2024-05-07
  • Publisher: University of Queensland Press

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Summary

From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world. The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy. A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard, a lonely man finds an abandoned toddler, a second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion, a young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson’ s stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.

Author Biography

Fiona Robertson is a writer and doctor. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia and the UK, and has been shortlisted for international competitions. Her collection of stories, If You’ re Happy, won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. Fiona lives in Brisbane with her husband and children. Fiona Robertson is a writer and doctor. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia and the UK, and has been shortlisted for international competitions. Her collection of stories, If You’ re Happy, won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. Fiona lives in Brisbane with her husband and children.

Table of Contents

TEMPEST IF YOU’ RE HAPPY ALL THIS BEAUTY DESCENT CONSTANT SMALL ADJUSTMENTS A SHIFT IN THE ICE THE LESSON THE FLUTTERING THE GROUND BENEATH SWEET BOUNTIFUL SEA CHANGE BIRTHDAY WISHES SHINY THINGS SNOWFALL PITTER-PATTER A SLOW EXHALATION AFTERSHOCK LAST GAME HAPPY HOUR CHRISTMAS PARTY BOXING DAY AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON PLUME

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