Every move you make. David Malouf. 2007.

A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer’s life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and, in the funniest, most surprising story of all, a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayer’s Rock. Malouf’s men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life, puzzling over the space they’ll leave behind when the waters close over them……