The Cuckoo's Song

<p>Award-winning author Amra Pajalić showcases her gritty poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution deprivation of war tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. As well as suspenseful new thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution and love stories that make the heart sing Pajalić will delight and entertain. </p><p><br></p><p><em>The Cuckoo's Song</em>-Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Fragments</em>-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Friends Forever</em>-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home as well as a secret or two. </p><p><br></p><p><em>School of Hardknocks</em>-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Woman on Fire</em>-A young girl lives with her mother's boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.</p>