The Kookaburra

Twelve months after the death of her husband, Diana is living an unmoored life in her remote island cottage.

She's struggling to write her next book, has let herself go in more ways than one, and is ignoring her sister's increasingly frantic calls after discovering a chain of emails she was not meant to read.

When she encounters an injured kookaburra on a lonely bush road, the delicate order of her grief is blown apart. Taking this chaotic bird into her home, she at first intends to protect it, but soon she is forced to confront the reality of care, connection, and her place in the natural order, and the outside world comes crashing in once more.