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Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
This is a delightful, warm novel set in the late 1960s in the northwest of WA as engineers descend on the town to work at the tracking station supporting the moon landing. It’s narrated by a galah named Lucky, in the 2000’s, and looking back on the events at the time. Don’t be surprised; galahs live to 40 in the wild and 80 in captivity. The story centres on Evan and Linda Johnson, part of the space age influx, and Lucky tells of all the trials they and their friends suffer living in the heat, with no fresh food, no television, and no culture to speak of. It’s full of humour as the characters learn to, or fail to, adapt to a hostile and unfamiliar environment. Linda is a woman yearning for more than life a a wife and mother, and she meets Harry, and you can maybe guess where the story goes. But it’s not that simple – this is not a simple tale.
