This Is Where We Say Goodbye: A bittersweet tale of siblings and grief. This item is unavailable.This Is Where We Say Goodbye: A bittersweet tale of siblings and grief

The day after Maud Tarkington turns twenty-one, she must attend the funeral of her favourite brother Lloyd. But instead, Maud is ricocheting around the city, looking for signs of life - will she even make it to Lloyd's send-off?

Shortlisted for the 2024 Hungerford Award, This Is Where We Say Goodbye is a quirky, bittersweet story about family ties, memory and the unexpected ways we hold it together when everything has fallen apart.

Howard McKenzie-Murray is a fiction writer and playwright from the settler-state of Western Australia. His short fiction has been shortlisted nationally and internationally. Most recently, his short fiction can be found in the 2025 anthology Stranger Weather. This Is Where We Say Goodbye is his first novel.