Extracts

Not long after uploading my first video, I started to receive messages—thousands of them.

The fourth trimester is rough, but beautiful. Challenging, but rewarding. Exhausting, but fulfilling. Indefinite, but short.

We met quite young, both of us still finding our footing in college, but as soon as we were in each other’s gravity, Sara and I felt an undeniable pull that kept bringing us even closer together.

Beans Finds a Case

I ran. I ran in the mornings and in the afternoons, and I ran at night.

My earworm for today is ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats.

Saskia Honeyman would look back on her mother’s death and see that it had the cadence of an exquisitely orchestrated sonata.

I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face I see as I drown.

Tommy Stojack.

My grave is open.

People don’t tap their watches anymore; have you noticed?

He’s got to want it more than I do.

In 2019 I was invited to appear on ABC TV’s Australian Story to talk about my life.

Ammy’s fingers curl around the bottle in her blazer pocket.

New Zealand was greener than Emilia could ever have imagined.

The dining table was set for a feast, but all the carving knives had been hidden.

When I met Caitlin, there was no question that she had a dream.

Chapter One ROCK AND ROLL