The Second Spring of Abigail Rose and Other Stories

Both love and roses come in many varieties all of which are subject to the vicissitudes of time and frost that can cause them to wither with the fall.

Whether late-blossoming desire, a bickering couple, a passing glimpse that alters a life-love and the many blights that befall love is a recurring theme in this collection of short stories.

Enchanted love-whether of the divine or of art or of a child's imagination-and the desperate hope for validation that often accompanies such longing is another theme that runs through the collection.

Most of the 13 stories are rooted in a familiar Australian landscape of gardens, suburbs, paddocks, and a hinterland haunted by ghosts of the past and present.