Stepping on the Cracks is Amanda White's first collection. It exhumes the private, psychological and social landscape of the patterns we experience and inherit. White's subjects — glimpsed, lived with and imagined — oscillate between a desire for form and meaning and a compulsion to escape from that world. The two are bound together by a fear that it might all come to nought — landing somewhere between the apple never falling far from the tree and fine words buttering no parsnips.