Book Description
Fleeing her cruel husband, 60-year-old Ruby Marie Wilson finds herself broke and living in her car in a strange city with her beloved old kelpie, Roo. She jumps at a Housing Commission offer of a tower bedsit in cosmopolitan Prahran.
As Ruby searches for meaning in her new world of high-rise compatriots, itinerants, their dogs, public parks and talking trees, she struggles to learn the ropes of living on a pension and mourns her loss of status. She soon makes friends, but just as she begins to feel safe, disaster strikes, causing her to question who she is and what it means to truly belong.
Set in 2004, They Who Nicked the Sun is a touching and often funny story of one woman’s journey from violence to peace as she builds a new life.
The paperback is available from Dymocks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Booktopia. The ebook is available on Apple Books, Kindle, and Kobo. It is also now in the SA Libraries catalogue. Copies are also available on request through the author on Facebook.
Reader Feedback
Hi Lindy,
Thank you for sending your latest novel, ‘They who nicked the sun,’ which I have found quite moving and inspiring.
It took me a while to work my way into it but I’m glad I persevered. I valued the insights you provided into the courage and adaptability of the people whose rich lives I was able to share in, through reading your book. Your novel began to flow much more for me somewhere near the middle which is probably when Ruby began to find herself and see her pathway forward. Hearing about the lives of the homeless kids I found very distressing but I was amazed by their courage, honesty and maturity.
I agree with Deb Stewart in her blurb, that the novel would make a wonderful mini-series which could showcase the lives of people that society often overlooks and undervalues, though as your story tells so well, they are also likely to inspire us.
Thank you again and good luck with your future writing. It sure is gritty, raw and confronting at times, but so is life.
Well done and take care,
Steve
Stephen Murphy, Sustainable Biorich Landscapes