Publisher's Synopsis
A woman's struggle with abandonment, poverty and loneliness during the harsh 1950s in North Western Tasmania wrenched more from Iris than her self-esteem. Every day was a fresh battle for survival but she was a fighter, and when hippies and flower power emerged, she rose triumphant.
Iris was a chameleon, displaying her best side as a barmaid at the Central Hotel in Burnie. The patrons became her salvation, but could this community of eclectic locals save her from herself? Would a lifetime of bitterness cost her another child, and could she claw back all she had destroyed?
