Category: Novels

While illness and the slow erosion of memory threaten to undo her, Elise must reckon with the puzzle of her life—its pain, broken edges and unexpected beauty—in a journey that spans decades of change in Australia.

In my novel Kerosene Creek, 18-year-old Jindy Kelly appears on the steps of a convent starving, frostbitten and suffering from amnesia. Her only possession is a book of handwritten stories. This is one of them, written when she was 10.