IF YOU’RE HAPPY by Fiona Robertson

These stories are satisfyingly self-contained and you feel, with every phrase and every carefully-chosen word, that you are in competent hands. A masterclass in the art of short story writing from Fiona Robertson.

A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard. A lonely man finds an abandoned toddler. A second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion. A young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson’s stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.