Depth of Field

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In photography, you dont get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices.

To capture the light.

Toms longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which hasnt been the same since Adeline. Hes stuck in the past drowning his sorrows in too many bottles of wine and an unfulfilling photography business. Unable to move on Tom is treading water in a low-commitment relationship. The only problem she isnt Adeline.

Lottie is living with her baby, Coral, in a cramped flat above a fish and chip shop. Struggling to make ends meet, all she wants is to find connection with her distant mother, the parents group, her old school friends, but Lottie straddles too many different worlds to quite fit into any of them. She doesnt have much, but at least her and Coral have each other.

Told through alternating perspectives, Kirsty Iltners debut novel examines the lives of two isolated individuals to reveal the fragility of life and the fallibility of our memories. Winner of the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award, Depth of Field is a gripping novel in which the mechanisms of photography are allowed to falter just enough to expose how selective and unreliable our memories are, especially when parts of the truth are left out of the frame.