Eight stories of love, friendship, and indifference.Ashley Sievwright is the author of The Shallow End, and Walter'An impressively fresh voice in Australian fiction' ... 'evocative prose and cynical humour are Sievwight's strengths' ... 'droll observations about life, presented at a gentle pace' ... 'Well that was unexpected. Not sure if I loved it or hated it' ... 'witty and easy to read' ... Sievwright is a great wordsmith' ... 'gently poetic' .…

'It was one of the most perfect days, only just warm enough, an ever so slight breeze I could see in the hairs on my arm and in the flutter of the flags across each end of the pool but couldn't feel. It must have been the exact temperature of my blood.'On a cloudless afternoon, a man dives into a crowded swimming pool and disappears. Is it murder, a staged disappearance or alien abduction?The Shallow End - a steady freestyle commentary on ...

Walter Kovak - insurance worker, early forties, unhappily married, no children, memorably invisible - is the sole survivor of a devastating suburban train crash. But Walter has no memory of the tragedy.One year on he starts to receive mysterious random warnings from strangers - warnings that could again save his life. And his memory of the fateful day begins to return.Ashley Sievwright lives, works and writes in Melbourne. His first novel, The Shallow End, was shor...

From teenage memories of staying with a cross-dressing cousin in Sydney, to estranged siblings scattering the ashes of a family member, not to mention perplexing encounters in Jordan, these eight stories reflect on family, friendship, desire and belonging in a queer world.Ashley Sievwright is the author of the novels The Shallow End (Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Novel) and Walter. He is also consulting editor of Bent Street, t...