Families: Modern Australian Short Stories

'Bonding,battling, breaking... the stories in this engrossing collection shed high and lowlights on families from every angle.Heroic mothers,estranged fathers, resentful siblings, children losing their innocence- even a family ghost or two.Some of Australia's finest writers- and some who should be better known - explore the whole range of family life, from the happy to the hopeless, in stories Barry Oakley has collected with one criterion vitality.'