Deeper Water

<p><em>'The secret things I knew about my mum and the things that everyone knew had played in my mind for some time since I was real little I guess. When I was small all around me seemed to flow gentle and sweet like the edge of the creek. Then my brothers grew too large to be hemmed in and Sophie met a bloke moved out and had babies and things became harder. </em></p><p><em>The older I got the louder those secret things inside me became all those knowns and unknowns until-apart from Anja-I'd rather talk to animals than people.' </em></p><p>Innocent and unworldly Mema is still living at home with her mother on a remote lush hinterland property. It is a small confined simple sort of life and Mema is content with it. </p><p>One day during a heavy downpour Mema saves a stranger from the raging creek. She takes him into her family home where marooned by rising floods he has to stay until the waters recede. His sudden presence is unsettling-for Mema her mother and her wild friend Anja-but slowly he opens the door to a world of beckoning possibilities that threaten to sweep Mema into the deep. </p>