Julie Thorndyke

Mrs Rickaby's Lullaby

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Produktbeschreibung

Mrs Eileen Rickaby, a semi-retired botanical illustrator and Orchid Society member with a penchant for Mozart, lives a quiet ordered life with Missy, her cat. Her tranquillity is disturbed when close friend and neighbour Irene brings home a twice-widowed younger man of dubious character, and introduces him as her future husband. Petty theft, vandalism and violence disrupt the peaceful retirement village. How can Mrs Rickaby protect her friend from this con-man lover? Mrs Rickaby's Lullaby is an engaging novel of haunting lyricism and gentle humour, exploring the timeless themes of love, loss and widowhood, friendship and belonging. Julie Thorndyke's two collections of tanka poetry, Rick Rack and Carving Granite, were published by Ginninderra Press. Editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal since 2017, she also writes fiction and other poetry forms. Waiting for the Night, Julie's picture book for children, was published by Interactive Press. Mrs Rickaby's Lullaby is her first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ginninderra Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781760417093
• ISBN-10: 1760417092
• Artikelnr.: 55501084

Autorenporträt

Julie loves to spend each summer at a quiet beach-side town north of Sydney. It is an area rich in native wildlife. Although most Australian animals are nocturnal and elusive during the daylight hours, sometimes Julie and her family will encounter a hungry goanna on the bush track behind the house, spot a koala high up in a gum tree, or meet a dingo in the sand dunes. One memorable morning, a python caught a pigeon on their roof and swallowed it whole for breakfast!