In The End of Seeing, Christy Collins examines grief, memory and the fragile relationship between looking and understanding.

Following the death of a child, a mother travels through unfamiliar places, trying to preserve what they have lost. The photographs, domestic belongings, souvenirs and the small material proofs that someone was once here. Collin's prose moves between close observation and inward reflection, where these acts of looking make absence seem part of another dimension.

Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize, this is a restrained, formally attentive work of Australian fiction, concerned with the inadequacy of representation and the uneasy persistence of life after loss.

Xoum Publishing, Sydney, 2015. First edition. Seizure Viva La Novella series. Paperback with illustrated wrappers and prize emblem. Light shelfwear to covers; internally clean and well preserved.