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If You’re Happy
by Fiona Robertson

From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.

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The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy.

A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard. A lonely man finds an abandoned toddler. A second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion. A young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson’s stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.

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Mirandi Riwoe

‘A tender and insightful collection. The beautiful stories in If You’re Happy will move and transport you.’

Nick Earls

‘Fiona Robertson deftly delivers the complexity of contemporary life in exactly the kind of clear-eyed uncomplicated prose that I most want to read.’

Cate Kennedy

‘Robertson evokes disparate characters, their yearning hearts always on the cusp of something they can’t quite name. Mapping a terrain of loneliness, compromise, ageing and tension, these short sharp pieces set across wide-ranging locales create pockets of surprise and solace in unexpected places.’

The AU Review

‘Robertson easily takes her place among these literary heavy hitters ... [If You're Happy] showcases the dexterity of its writer within a form that can contain as many genres and styles as any literary canon.’

Fiona Robertson

Fiona Robertson is a writer and doctor. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia and the UK, and has been shortlisted for international competitions. Her collection of stories, If You’re Happy, won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. Fiona lives in Brisbane with her husband and children.