{"product_id":"9781460708422_all-our-shimmering-skies-an-extraordinary-novel-from-the-beloved-bestselling-award-winning-author-of-boy-swallows-universe-and-lola-in-the-mirror","title":"All Our Shimmering Skies: An extraordinary novel from the beloved bestselling award winning author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of \u003cem\u003eBoy Swallows Universe\u003c\/em\u003e, Trent Dalton returns with \u003cem\u003eAll Our Shimmering Skies - \u003c\/em\u003ethe bestselling, critically acclaimed novel destined to become another Australian classic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A glinting, big-hearted miracle of a book' Richard Glover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A work of shimmering originality and energy, with extraordinary characters and a clever, thrilling plot ... unputdownable' \u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. \u003cem style=\"font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0em;\"\u003eRun, Molly, run,\u003c\/em\u003e says the daytime sky. Run to the vine forests. Run to northern Australia's wild and magical monsoon lands. Run to friendship. Run to love. Run. Because the graverobber's coming, Molly, and the night-time sky is coming with him. So run, Molly, run.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Our Shimmering Skies\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves. It is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue skies; a buoyant, beautiful and magical novel abrim with warmth, wit and wonder; and a love letter to Australia and the art of looking up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dalton is an author of 19th-century expansiveness, one with a sense that intelligence, talent for characterisation and sheer narrative brio can still be the whole cloth of the writer's ambition ... it is storytelling manna, fallen straight from the Territorian skies.' \u003cem\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Achingly beautiful and poetic in its melancholy, \u003cem\u003eAll Our Shimmering Skies\u003c\/em\u003e is a majestic and riveting tale of curses and the true meaning of treasure.' \u003cem\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/em\u003estarred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As Australian as outback red dirt and as universal as the sky young Molly Hook's journey takes place beneath, \u003cem\u003eAll Our Shimmering Skies\u003c\/em\u003e is an open-hearted wonder, by turns heartbreaking and full of hope, no less than an instant classic' Venero Armanno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Australia has a new literary hero. Molly Hook - part Cordelia, part Jo March, part Pippi Longstocking - pulls us into a story and a landscape that is mythic, beguiling and almost hallucinatory in its beauty. And instantly recognisable as our own' Kristina Olsson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is storytelling at its absolute purest, a truly courageous expression of longing, hope and love ... against unimaginable odds' Asher Keddie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eAll Our Shimmering Skies \u003c\/em\u003eis the follow-up to \u003cem\u003eBoy Swallows Universe\u003c\/em\u003e we could have never imagined, but the one Dalton was destined to gift us. It's a story of heroes and villains, foxes and water buffalo, fighter planes and birds of prey, real magic and real love, epitaphs and aphorisms, lost treasure and lost life. It's a love letter to the nation. It's your favourite childhood adventure story dictated by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare, with a score by Franz Liszt. It's dead serious. It's completely ridiculous. It's all of these things and more' Booktopia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trent Dalton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922179248277,"sku":"9781460708422","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460708422_0c0ecb6a-b624-42ae-b3d2-4138d772eaab.jpg?v=1776889977","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460708422_all-our-shimmering-skies-an-extraordinary-novel-from-the-beloved-bestselling-award-winning-author-of-boy-swallows-universe-and-lola-in-the-mirror","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}