Gravity Let Me Go (2025) by Australian writer, Trent Dalton, tells the story of a Brisbane journalist whose life is unravelling as he begins to promote his non-fiction true crime book.

Noah Cork one day finds the remains of a missing woman in an abandoned house. As he investigates the murder, & then spends 6 months writing a book, he neglects his family to the point that his wife, Rita, stops talking.

Rita, we find out, was adopted at the age of 6 months. She knows she was a foundling & later plucked from the Mater Mothers home & subsequently adopted by Deb & Munro.

Rita is a local hero having saved 3 children from being burned alive in a house fire. She also grows plants & gives them away, and helps out other neighbours quietly – delivering prepared meals for sick ones for example.

Although younger daughter, Clem, is interested in Ritia’s biological parents, Rita isn’t.