When Someone Is Taken Away, What Is Left Behind? All Her Life, Till Has Lived In The Shadow Of The Abduction Of A Childhood Friend And Her Tormented Wondering About Whether She Could Have Stopped It. When Till, Now Twenty-Three, Senses Danger Approaching Again, She Flees Her Past And The Hovering Presence Of Her Fearful Parents. In Wirowie, A Town On Its Knees, She Stops And Slowly Begins Creating A New Life And Home. But There Is Something Menacing Here Too. Till Must Decide Whether She Can Finally Face Down, Even Pursue, The Darkness – Or Whether She’Ll Flee Once More And Never Stop Running. Both A Reckoning With Fear And Loss, And A Recognition Of The Power Of Belonging, Days Of Innocence And Wonder Is A Richly Textured, Deeply Felt New Novel From One Of Australia’S Finest Writers.