This book is a collection of little tales by ceramicist Fairlie Kingston, illustrated by her brother Peter. There are two sections, and the first focuses on a liver-brick block of flats called Dalgliesh in a Sydney suburb. Kingston tells eight warm, understated stories of the tenants and their pets and children, often with some bittersweet revelatory moment left hanging in the air. The other six stories are stand-alone stories with the same light touch, simple but haunting vignettes of a bygone era, some of them barely a page long. Peter Kingston's illustrations run the gamut from cartoon-like to magical, with a charming Bondi tram and a beautiful little sketch of the vans at night in a seaside caravan park, "crouching guinea-pig like in the moonlit paddock"

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