What We Carry

A quiet, devastating story about love, loss, and the things we carry without speaking.

Lena and James Hartley have built a careful life in Brunswick, a paediatric nurse, an architect, a marriage that has survived years of fertility struggles and the slow work of staying close while hoping. They are tired. They are still here. They are trying.

Then a single evening at a Melbourne rooftop bar changes everything.

What follows is not a thriller. There is no twist, no chase, no race against time. What We Carry is the inside story of what happens after, the weeks of waiting, the conversations that take whole evenings to start, the hand reaching across a kitchen table, the silence between two people who love each other and don’t yet know how to say what’s true.

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