The only constant

by Robyne Young

Heading back to her parents after her first home is flooded in the 2011 Brisbane disaster, Angela finds an unexpected source of comfort; while in another place and time, twelve year old Katie deals with the consequences of an event a year before at the local show.

In everyday settings including an office, a bookshop and a farm ravaged by drought, the characters in these eight stories have to find their own way of coping with change.

121 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Robyne Young is an Albury-based writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous fourW anthologies, On the Wallaby Track - A Journey Across Memories, Short and Scary, ZineWest 13, New Albury Writing, online in Tincture Journal and Seizure and in her two collections of short stories, The Only Constant (2012 - reprinted 2022) and The Basket and The Briefcase (2003).

She has enjoyed an almost 40 year career in broadcast and print journalism, marketing and public relations and has a Masters in Cultural and Creative Practice from the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University.
Follow her on Facebook and Instagram @RobyneYoungwriter, on Twitter @RobyneYoung7 or visit her website robyneyoung.com.au

Reviews

[Rach · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author is a local writer and someone I follow on twitter. I read she was doing a book signing so bought her book on a whim. I loved it. The stories are about family, change, relationships, emotions, each one a little snapshot of a person's life. It was easy to think that, while the stories themselves are fictional, what the characters are dealing with are things any one of us could be dealing with. I felt drawn to some of the characters, feeling their emotions, relating to them at some level. There were more than a few stories where I got to the end and genuinely cared to know what happened to the rest of their story. The illustrations were done by another local talented artist and complemented the stories beautifully. Easy to read, I recommend this book.