The Calm of You

Grief is a loyal friend. And his presence is encumbering, his dark mood debilitating. He brings with him a pain like no other, one that never fully recedes, not really. It ebbs and flows and stops and starts. But mostly it sits just below the surface, bubbling, waiting to rear its head the moment that Grief decides. Hannah is well acquainted with Grief. So is Jake. Both spend their time trying to ignore his blackened presence. But his presence is… undeniably there. And ignoring him only encourages his loyalty. Hannah is a solitude-seeking recluse, relocated to a shack at the edge of the world, a wild and unruly coastline. She spends her time traversing the beautiful, but desolate bay with her loyal canine, watching the ever-changing weather and allowing the quiet to seep into her tired bones. She is never completely alone though – she often watches the lone and reckless surfer amongst the waves and squalls below, the sharks that plague the murky water never far away. A gently emerging story of shadowed recovery, The Calm of You traverses the overwhelming consequences of trauma and loss, unexpectedly entwining the broken lives of Jake and Hannah. With the unsolicited guidance of the remote and ragged Australian coastline, they find that for the first time in a long time, desires of companionship and familial noise begin to trickle back into their broken hearts. —- ISBN: 9780975622902