My Hearts are your Hearts

My Hearts Are Your Hearts brings together twenty stories by Carmel Bird, included some recently published in as well as a number which will be published for the first time. The stories in My Hearts Are Your Hearts navigate moments in human experience that are both shared and unique; stories of life and death, loss and fear, love and betrayal.

Organised under the headings, ‘Body Parts’, ‘Laws of Love’, ‘Sudden Death’ and ‘Life Saving’, and ranging from playful to poignant, these stories all deal with matters of the heart - including the heart-shaped island of Tasmania which has featured in much of Bird’s fiction. There are tales of transplanted wombs, broken marriages, murdered artists and $6000 raincoats.

Intrinsically Australian, biting and clever, these well-crafted stories form a collection that speaks to anyone who has ever experienced the pain of loss or questioned the fallibility of human life.