A boat trip in a squall to scatter the ashes of an old man, who was not loved.A young father, driving his daughters home across grass plains, unable to tell them that their mother has died.A speech that doesn't include the aching pain of trying to save a cousin's life.A mother hiding her fugitive son in a cockatoo cage as the river rises.A man pouring his life into finding the perfect stained glass after his wife has left him.A woman longing for the right person to tell about her sister's death, while she works nightshift at a roadhouse.These are moving and evocative stories about love and loss and yearning - and the things we don't say. Claire Aman is a strong new voice in Australian fiction.