Denise J Main, Ian N Chisholm

Broschiertes Buch

Voices of the Whipstick

Beschreibung

A tender and deeply moving novel, Voices of the Whipstick explores what can befall those who lose what they love most. Mick Tranter was born and raised at the edge of the ancient Whipstick Forest, north of Bendigo. When his active rural lifestyle is interrupted by the outbreak of WW2, he joins the AIF, and on his last night of leave, he meets and falls in love with a young woman at a Saturday night dance. Love letters and a photo of her go with him to the battlefields of New Guinea and become his talisman. He experiences the harrowing brutality of jungle warfare, only to be posted as missing in action and all communication is lost with his girl and his family. Later, he is found ill and wounded. He survives the war, but returns home in a fragile mental state. Despite the love and care from his mother and his best friend, he is haunted by guilt and shame and enduring sadness over the loss of the girl he loves. He retreats to his beloved Whipstick Forest, but his troubled mind, not relieved by reclusiveness, worsens until he has an epiphany that sets him on the path to atonement.

Autor

Denise Main was born and grew up in Bendigo, Australia. She trained as a general nurse at the Northern District School of Nursing and maintained registration through many years of district nursing, community health nursing (including at the Eaglehawk and Long Gully Community Health Centre, one of Australia's first community health centres) and lecturing in public health at La Trobe University.Denise was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study community responses to child sexual abuse in the USA and Canada. She holds a Master of Health Science and a Graduate Diploma in Community Nursing.On relocating to Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Denise completed a Diploma in Visual Art. She joined the Geelong Gallery Guides and the SpringDale Artists with whom she paints and exhibits. She also became an inaugural member of the Queenscliff Rip Writers and was inspired to write. Her first book, Mission: Angela, was published in 2022 by Feather Knight Books.Denise and Ian began writing Voices of the Whipstick, a fiction inspired by fragments of a true story, in the winter of 2020, during the first of many Victorian COVID-19 pandemic winter lockdowns.

Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780648609407
• ISBN-10: 0648609405
• Artikelnr.: 69580275