9781922871060_

Female synthesized voice

Award-winning author Amra Pajalic showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain.

The Cuckoos SongFrancesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.

FragmentsSeka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.

Friends ForeverTwo lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.

School of HardknocksAmina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.

Woman on FireA young girl lives with her mothers boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.

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