A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love.

With rare subtlety and humanity, this novel relocates the difficult path to wonder in us all.' The Christina Stead Prize
judges on The Museum of Modern Love
And then it occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here.
Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because it seems like there is so much suffering.
But maybe every life is perfect for we need to know and learn and see and understand. Even when we don't understand,
even when the suffering seems unfathomable, does some part of us understand? Could that really be true, I wondered?
Nothing bad ever happens here…
My body was shaking violently now. I held onto the rock beneath me as if I was clinging to life itself. Maybe I was. I clung
to this life, my life, with all its imperfections and mistakes, with all its joy. I didn't want to go anywhere.
After a shocking family tragedy transforms Heather Rose's Tasmanian childhood, she becomes 'a seeker of life and all its
mysteries'. Heather has spent a lifetime testing boundaries and exploring the connections between love and death, the
natural world and the body. Her questing spirit and her strong affinity with nature have inspired and driven her throughout
her life-and deeply sustained her in times of darkness. Her words will bring wonder, light and comfort to all who read this
astonishing book.
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a luminous, compelling and utterly surprising memoir by the bestselling author of
Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny.