A young girl flies alone toAntarctica. A man goes on holiday and meets the politician he thinks has ruinedhis life. Here are ordinary characters in unusual circumstances, trying to copewith the vagaries that life throws at them. The unexpected repercussions ofgoing to Thailand for dental work or floundering on the high seas in a sinkingyacht. Meet Ned Kelly as you've never seen him. Listen to an articulate budgieruminating on his destiny. From the domestic to the sublime and the sublimelyabsurd, these stories will take you out of your comfort zone. Blunderingthrough life, O'Flynn's characters adapt to the pitfalls they dig forthemselves, coming to grips with their tenuous place in a world slightly offbalance