Publisher's Synopsis
Two abused people find love, meaning, friends, slavery and corruption in a chase across provincial Australia, in 1981.
When you're trying to escape your own abuse, do you stop to help someone else out of theirs? And how far do you go in believing them ... that they've been kept in underground tunnels beneath Alice Springs by child slavers ... that they've been drugged and gang-raped by their own husbands' band of criminals connected to the Ipswich mayor and business hierarchy? You know the depths that your parents and foster parents have gone but surely there is some goodness in the world. And, when Love shows itself, can you trust it? They came from different generations, different genders, different states, even different countries, in 1983. Based around the Red Centre, Ipswich and Aboriginal wisdom, they are drawn together by shared - though different - trauma - and try to live good, simple lives, like everyone else seems to. But will life allow them as they stumble between their horrors and their dreams? But Love must find a way, you hope. And when it does, can you know it? Can you trust it? Our scars cannot tell our stories but they cannot hide forever.
