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In this luminous ten-star episode of Between the Covers with Danielle, I dive deep into Trent Dalton’s Gravity Let Me Go — a haunting, fiercely tender exploration of truth, ambition, love, and the quiet moral fractures of suburban life.

Dalton, author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, and Lola in the Mirror, delivers his most introspective novel yet — a story that asks what happens when the pursuit of truth begins to consume the teller. Through Noah Cork’s unraveling, Dalton writes the smallness of life with the reverence of an epic: marriage and silence, art and guilt, holding on and learning to let go.

In this episode, I unpack the book’s shimmering prose, its ethical heartbeat, and the way it dismantles the myth of the “capable man.” We talk about the gendered weight of communication, the invisible labour of love, and why the bravest acts of courage are often the quietest ones.

If you love intelligent literary commentary, lyrical storytelling, and thoughtful reflections on contemporary Australian fiction, this episode is your perfect companion.