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Synopsis
In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run?
A survivor of bushfires takes asylum with old friends. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around Australia to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night.
When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across Australia, from the wheat belt, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugar cane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run.
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Review
Assured, witty and wise. Author: Best Books of 2015 Source: The Australian
Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory. Author: Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost
Vivid and compelling. Author: Jenny Barry, BooksPlus
From the Author
Murray Middleton was born with fractured hips in 1983. He spent the first three months of his life in plaster and has broken most bones since. He won The Age Short Story Award in 2010 with 'The Fields of Early Sorrow'. When There's Nowhere Else to Run is his first published collection of short stories.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1760292583
- ISBN 13 9781760292584
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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