A.L. McCann

The Walters are an eccentric family who struggles through life. They go from the allies and back parts of Melbourne to Europe which is struggling of war. This book has plenty of magic and brothels and fortune tellers and even some predators. The world of obsessions and crimes is a world that can draw even the best in and the Walters are no exception. With a disintegrating marriage, the children are exposed to a city's possibilities and Paul and Ondine are no exception. It is set between the time of 1891 and 1922 and the writer captures the historical side of it and flows through the plot very easily. With everyday family matters and believable plot twists this books has plenty for a reader to enjoy. Abuse, murder, love, war are just some of what you see and the action and draw is great.… (mais)

1977. The fibro-belt suburbs of Melbourne's south. The names of West German terrorists crackle through the white noise of television news, but barely penetrate the soundtrack of the seventies. Endless summers, mass-market pornography, sport, and a sexual freedom precariously close, yet always just out of reach. Only when Julian meets Martin Bernhard, a ratbag of a kid who smokes, drinks and shoots model soldiers with his air-rifle, does the world start to look a bit larger, and a bit more dangerous. And once you get a passport and a plane ticket, it seems, you can be anything you want to be. (Editorial description from Amazon)… (mais)