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Online Bookclub: 'All Our Shimmering Skies' by Trent Dalton

Our next virtual book club is Thursday 5 November!

The team from Book Face Orion will be leading the chat with a focus on All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton.

WHEN: Thursday 5 November from 7pm to 8pm (AEST)
WHERE: Catchup hosted via Zoom https://zoom.us/s/93736530279

Anyone is welcome to join in the discussion from the comfort of your own home with a class of wine, or maybe a cuppa, or nothing - the choice is allll yours.

 

More About All Our Shimmering Skies

Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, is looking to the skies and running for her life. Inside a duffel bag she carries a stone heart, alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who she believes put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. The treasure lies before them, but close behind them trails the dark. And above them, always, are the shimmering skies.

A story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves, All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue skies. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking up - a buoyant, beautiful and magical novel, abrim with warmth, wit and wonder.



Earlier Event: October 3
Love Your Bookshop Day 2020
Later Event: November 11
Online Event: Australia Reads