Walter Kovak - insurance worker, early forties, unhappily married, no children, memorably invisible - is the sole survivor of a devastating suburban train crash. But Walter has no memory of the tragedy.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eOne year on he starts to receive mysterious random warnings from strangers - warnings that could again save his life. And his memory of the fateful day begins to return.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eAshley Sievwright lives, works and writes in Melbourne. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Shallow End\u003c/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book in 2009.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eReviews of \u003ci\u003eThe Shallow End\u003c/i\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e'\u003ci\u003e... an impressively fresh voice in Australian fiction... The Shallow End is a little gem of a novel and deserves to be widely read.\u003c/i\u003e' - \u003cb\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBoth witty and easy to read... filled with moments of droll sagacity... evocative prose and cynical humour are Sievwright's strengths...\u003c/i\u003e' - \u003cb\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c/b\u003e