Life doesn’t come with an instruction book. Most of us try to figure it out as we go along. Love and loss are two of life’s inevitabilities. Coping with them requires faith – faith in others, faith in yourself, or faith in the future. Sometimes it also takes practice and perseverance - like learning to drink coffee from a bowl without burning your fingers.
This collection of ten short stories, by Australian author C. K. Faulkner, explores life, love and loss from very different perspectives, involving strangers and friends, optimists and cynics, old and young, past and future. Some of the stories are gentle and poignant, while others are gritty and confronting. Not all have happy endings. But all offer hope, in one form or another.
