How do you rebuild a life after the death of a much loved one? What brings solace, peace and maybe even pleasure as the living are left to carry on? A new lover? A pub? A rabbit?

Three gorgeous novels meditate on the nature of grief and ghosts, legacies and loss: Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow has been called ‘a rare delicacy’ by Helen Garner. Kylie Mirmohamadi’s first novel, Diving, Falling, is as elegant as it is exhilarating. While Jock Serong’s latest work of historical fiction, Cherrywood, brings a touch of magic realism to a gothic Melbourne. With host, La Trobe University’s Kelly Gardiner.