Tim Winton is indisputably one of the finest storytellers working in the English language.Now he gives us seventeen exquisite overlapping tales of second thoughts and mid-life regret-extraordinary stories of ordinary people from ordinary places.Here are turnings of all kinds-changes of heart,nasty surprises,slow awakenings,sudden detours-where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they've made for themselves.

Big World

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Aquifer

Damaged Goods

Small Mercies

On Her Knees

Cockleshell

The Turning

Sand

Family

Long,Clear View

Reunion

Commission

Fog

Boner McPharlin's Moll

Immunity

Defender