Kokomo. Victoria Hannan. 2020.

It was not her heart, she realised, but her phone vibrating against an amply, forever-yellowed Tupperware container in her bag. ‘Leave it,’ Jack said, the darkness of love in his voice. She found it, she pulled it out, she looked at the screen. She answered it. ‘Mina, it’s your mum,’ Kira said. ‘She left the house.’

When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her reclusive mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. 

Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she’s spent so much time hiding from it. Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover the truth.