Cassie McCullough

Imbe Nimi is a blogger and a short story writer whose manuscript for her debut novel, The Spill, was awarded the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize.

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Yeah, he is because, you know, the kids have just been in this accident and the first people on the scene take them to this pub to get help and

And she just walks into the front bar and seems to be having a whale of the time while the kids are outside having the classic lemonade and chips sent out by the barmaid.

Yeah, really classy sort of thing to say at a funeral, especially in earshot of the deceased's daughter.

Yeah, they're old school friends, they're old uni mates or something, yeah.

Well, so, yes, 35 years has passed and those little girls are now adults and Craig's had not one but two extra wives since Tina's been off the scene, the big bust-up after that spill, the accident outside Perth.

Samantha's the younger one, she's spoilt, she's really uptight.

In fact, there appears to have been a turning of the tables and Nicole, who's the more sympathetic of the two sisters, has managed to hook up with this guy called Jethro, who's very

Rich, one of the Andersons, you know, obviously a reference to those great families of Perth that exist in real life, you know, the very wealthy establishment families, although this is a fictionalised one.

And there's a wake at Nicole's house, or Jethro's and Nicole's house, and Samantha's chapter here starts, everyone at the wake kept going on about how tasteful everything was, the house, the furnishings, the catering.

Normally it'd be driving me nuts because I knew it had nothing to do with Nicole's amazing taste and everything to do with her boyfriend's money.

But today there was something else that was bothering me even more.

So that's the kind of voice that we hear Samantha in.

Yeah, and it's deliberate.

So she keeps calling Trent Troy.

Look, obviously, Tina's my kind of gal.

She's the life of the party.

She's always up for a good time.

We see her only really ever being quite supportive of all the people around her, even though she does get, you know, tragically, absolutely shattered with