Looking outside back at Melbourne, we felt your pain.
The characters you introduce us to, hearing from people from different walks of life, what a brilliant insight into the struggle of ordinary people.
A wonderful documentation of an intriguing period in our history that will be looked at fondly for many years to come.

This book is a sensational depiction of life as it was experienced by people all across Melbourne, with all its joys and sorrows. Buy it for your friends, your family and for yourself.

Honest, touching, heart-warming…

Together Apart is a beautiful snapshot of how people reacted in those crazy times last year when the world changed forever.

It is a privilege and joy that Jude and Belinda captured my memories, my story, and my beautiful boys to be part of this amazing collection.

All of the images and stories though will remind you of your own journey in 2020, in different ways.

Life will go back to normal – a new improved normal. This book is a glorious reminder of why.

Together Apart is an extraordinary book put together by Judith and Belinda in an extraordinary time in our lives when Covid -19 shocked our reality.

It was privileged to be featured in this book. It’s a collection of stories of individuals dealing with this strange time, both physically and mentally.

The beautiful black and white photography captures these stories in a coffee table book. The stories of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.

Well done and thank you for this gift of capturing this time in history.

Your book is such a great achievement, well done Belinda & Jude.

The beauty of the images and what they represent create an important visual record of these times.

Definitely a book for the time! Congratulations to you and all your Victorian friends – for the book and for surviving this long, strange chapter.

We are awed.

So poignant and inspiring.

Congratulations to you, Jude and Belle.

Your book tells of amazing tales
of the journeys we have been through and how life changed for a moment or forever.

It’s beautiful to have captured
so many of Altona’s amazing characters. You should be so proud. So many special people in here 😍.

Thanks for the memories.

Together Apart is a wonderful collection of stories of people surviving the pandemic as well as two neighbours becoming close as friends and business partners in order to create and document a book that will grow in value over time.

Well done Jude and Belle on capturing the essence of the last two challenging years on so many levels!