About Beneath the Bloodwood Tree

 

  

Pia Ricci has come to Port Hedland to free her life of complications and distractions. But when Pia discovers a bundle of money and men's clothing buried on the outskirts of town, she has an uncomforable feeling that things are about to change. Is it connected to the foreigner Joachim, a new arrival in town? Or to the ghosts of her own past?

As Pia and Joachim grow closer, Pia can see he has secrets. The widow Barnes, one of Joachim's nursing charges, also holds secrets, and they're coming to the surface. As these three misfits come together, their world starts to change in ways they could never have expected.

Set against the vast, inhospitable landscape of the Pilbara, this is a powerful, tightly woven desert tale of ghosts, grief and love.

 

 

About Road Story

 

Diana Kooper runs from a car crash in the heart of Sydney, scarcely looking back, leaving her best friend, Nicole, slumped and bleeding in the damaged vehicle.

 

After hitching a ride to the far west of New South Wales, Diana takes up a job as a kitchenhand at Bob's, an isolated truck stop. At first she thinks she can predict the sort of rhythm her life will follow in this dusty, diesel-driven, lonely stop but soon a series of unsettling events disturb the order of things. A dog is brutally stabbed to death and left as a warning beside one of the petrol bowsers. And when Bob rolls his ute in suspicious circumstances, Diana is left to look after the roadhouse kitchen on her own. As every-day life becomes increasingly challenging, Diana  struggles with her past and with the ghosts that haunt her present

 

Road Story is a remarkable novel that reveals the tenuousness of love between friends and the dark pervasiveness of addiction.