Heidi knows there is something wrong with her son, but she is young and inexperienced and doesn’t know where to get help. Caro, her doctor and sister-in-law, has moved to the town looking for a way to redeem herself after the death of her husband. Heidi and Caro are separated by age, but share a restless yearning. Together they discover that the place they love is making their children sick.

‘Tracy Crisp’s spare and compelling prose creates a myopic, suffocating industrial-town community . . . in a universal yet vividly local story of duty versus family.’ – Cath Keneally.