All Our Shimmering Skies Review

All Our Shimmering Skies Review. All Our Shimmering Skies Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore Dalton's writing is simply sublime and whilst the harsh brutality of the era was challenging to stomach from time to time, his storytelling and. Dalton's writing is simply sublime and whilst the harsh brutality of the era was challenging to stomach from time to time, his storytelling and characterisation were masterful.

In All Our Shimmering Skies the protagonist is Molly Hook, a 12-year-old girl clawing out an almost Cinderella-like existence as a gravedigger in 1942 Darwin, under the dubious care of her alcoholic father and abusive uncle All Our Shimmering Skies is a story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves

All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

Like the gorgeously lush cover, this book is almost too sumptuously overgrown with luxuriant succulents to be true The Story of All Our Shimmering Skies Set in Northern Australia in 1942, [i]All Our Shimmering Skies[/i] introduces us to 12 year old "Gravedigger girl", Molly Hook (and her trusty shovel, Bert) who lives with her father Horace and Uncle Aubrey Hook in the family's cemetery, where they tend to the burials of the town's departed. In All Our Shimmering Skies the protagonist is Molly Hook, a 12-year-old girl clawing out an almost Cinderella-like existence as a gravedigger in 1942 Darwin, under the dubious care of her alcoholic father and abusive uncle

All Our Shimmering Skies HarperCollins Australia. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. She too loves her mother, Violet, a broken woman, cursed like all her kin by Longcoat Bob, a semi-mythical Indigenous.

All our Shimmering Skies — book review Cristina Sanders' blog. In All Our Shimmering Skies the protagonist is Molly Hook, a 12-year-old girl clawing out an almost Cinderella-like existence as a gravedigger in 1942 Darwin, under the dubious care of her alcoholic father and abusive uncle Two years after the release of the international blockbuster and Booktopia staff favourite Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton's second novel is well on its way to your shelf.It's been worth the wait - All Our Shimmering Skies is a transcendent beam of sunlight breaking through a violent tropical storm system