" What can you say about a twenty five year old girl who died?" With those words, Erich Segal opened his tear-jerker novella Love Story, and a film (and cultural) phenomenon was born. "Gone to Mums" doesn't allow a dry eye in the room. Told from Ray's perspective, it is a most improbable love story, set among the orchards and migrant farmers of rural Australia. He meets Kelly when she beats the crap out of him for trying to steal fruit from her roadside farm stand. Ray and Kelly do fall in love, but their romance is anything but conventional. If Love Story taught us that love was never having to say sorry, "Mums" reminds us that time doesn't heal wounds, it just covers them over with scar tissue.
Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen

The stories are so "cinematic" you will find yourself choosing a cast within the opening paragraphs.
There's the unlikely, heart tuggy love story Gone to Mum's which could star the next Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe.
Off the Shelf with David J Foster 23/05/2007

"Gone to Mum's" by Barry Simiana is a richly detailed and poignant story of missed chances, stolen moments, heartbreak and redemption. Simiana's narrator takes readers along on his journey of self-discovery amid the rugged backdrop of Australia. The author paints emotion on his canvas, stunning the reader with the simplicity and honesty of his prose.
Cerri Ellis Armchair Interviews 2007