In this latest collection of award-winning stories, John Holton moves effortlessly from farce to accute social observation. Once again, perceptive details hit exactly the right notes - not just the ephemera of childhood and youth, like frozen Sunny Boys and Scanlen's footy cards, but the small secret moments we save and collect - the first glimpse of mortality, the first broken heart, the hopeful exhilaration of travel. Amid the ordinariness of everyday life. Holton's characters hope for something extraordinary, and occassionally it comes to them in small and unexpected victories, in hilarious ill-advised passion, or in tiny satisfying revenges. You like these people. You can't help it. Author: John Holton, Published by Burren Publications, 2004. Softcover, 166 pages.