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Hunt for the Virgin Rainbow

Mallory Cash is not your typical jewel thief. But she’s not the only one in Australia’s opal kingdom, Coober Pedy. Three others want the prized Virgin Rainbow opal. Stealing the opal was easy, but the escape…

The ensuant chase across the dry, hot desert to a chilly Canada and finally coming to rest in the tropical Whitsunday region will raise your temperature and cool it in an instant. Who will end up with the prized opal?

Mallory has the chance to redeem herself and end the Hunt for the Virgin Rainbow. Or will greed overtake her and put her behind bars for a very long time?

Return to Tamarlin

                                                                                      

Two sisters, one stranger...a lifetime of questions.

When Tamara Slender disappears from an isolated property in Western NSW in 1975, gossip runs wild with rumours she has run off with a local man, Roger Bryte.  

Months later, Tamara’s teenage daughters, Nancy and Mary, realise they encountered Bryte in caves on their property the day before their mother disappeared. Despite their suspicions, their father refuses to involve the police, and the girls' grief, fuelled by the town gossips and their father’s inaction, drives them apart.   

In 2007 a stranger arrives at the farm seeking information about Roger Bryte. His questions give Nancy a reason to contact her estranged sister. The sisters are reunited, and their mother’s disappearance is finally solved when Mary returns to Tamarlin.

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AWARDS

Australian Book Review Competition - 2009

First Prize for Review of Rogers' World by Charles Siebert

Zinewest -2008

Second prize of poem Mourning Conversation 

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