Riassunto
A tender and deeply moving novel, Voices of the Whipstick explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.
Mick Tranter was born and raised at the edge of the ancient Whipstick Forest, north of Bendigo. When the outbreak of WW2 interrupts his active rural lifestyle, he joins the AIF, and on his last night of leave, he meets and falls in love with a young woman at a Saturday night dance. Love letters and a photo of her go with him to the battlefields of New Guinea and become his talisman. He experiences the harrowing brutality of jungle warfare, only to be posted as missing in action and all communication is lost with his girl and his family. Later, he is found ill and wounded. He survives the war, but returns home in a fragile mental state. Despite the love and care from his mother and his best friend, he is haunted by guilt and shame and enduring sadness over the loss of the girl he loves. He retreats to his beloved Whipstick Forest, but his troubled mind, not relieved by reclusiveness, worsens until he has an epiphany that sets him on the path to atonement.
Informazioni sugli autori
Denise Main was born and grew up in Bendigo, Australia. She trained as a general nurse at the Northern District School of Nursing and maintained registration through many years of district nursing, community health nursing (including at the Eaglehawk and Long Gully Community Health Centre, one of Australia's first community health centres) and lecturing in public health at La Trobe University.Denise was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study community responses to child sexual abuse in the USA and Canada. She holds a Master of Health Science and a Graduate Diploma in Community Nursing.On relocating to Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Denise completed a Diploma in Visual Art. She joined the Geelong Gallery Guides and the SpringDale Artists with whom she paints and exhibits. She also became an inaugural member of the Queenscliff Rip Writers and was inspired to write. Her first book, Mission: Angela, was published in 2022 by Feather Knight Books.Denise and Ian began writing Voices of the Whipstick, a fiction inspired by fragments of a true story, in the winter of 2020, during the first of many Victorian COVID-19 pandemic winter lockdowns.
Ian Chisholm was born in Swan Hill, Australia. He completed a Diploma in Graphic Design at Bendigo School of Mines and initially worked as an artist with Prestige Limited, a leading hosiery, lingerie and fabric manufacturer. Three years later, he graduated from the Technical Teachers College in Melbourne and began a career as a secondary art teacher in technical schools.Ian, with his wife and young son, relocated to Toronto, Canada, where he worked as a graphic artist. Upon their return to Melbourne, he resumed his teaching career whilst also completing a Diploma of Art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology. He was appointed Arts Coordinator at a Melbourne private school, a position he held until his retirement to Rye, on the Mornington Peninsula.Ian continues to pursue his passion for painting, specialising in watercolour. Over many years he has successfully exhibited his art at Melbourne and regional art shows and in regional art galleries, achieving many awards. Throughout his adult life he has worked as a semi-professional jazz drummer, performing in Melbourne and at festivals throughout Australia. He published a memoir, A Collection of Imperfect Memories: Fragments of a Life Half Remembered, in 2021.After many years, Ian renewed his acquaintance with Denise, and they formed a deep friendship through their many mutual interests. It was their shared love of the written word that prompted them to co-write the manuscript that became Voices of the Whipstick.
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