https://www.facebook.com/AllenandUnwinBooks/WIN: 1 of 20 copies of Half Wild by Pip Smith, a stunningly original debut novel inspired by the lives and lies of Eugenia Falleni.
Enter: tell us the wildest lie that you've ever told!
Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has Ģ100 in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her-a murder trial, a life in prison-but with each xxx of the needle her memories begin to shift.
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papā takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo-life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. 'Go and play with your sisters,' Papā says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away.
Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk who'd accidentally set herself on fire? Nobody knows, until-three years later-a tailor's apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that same weekend, and that his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be. Who, then, is he?
Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni, Half Wild is Pip Smith's dazzling debut novel.
Open to Aus/NZ residents only, 20 advance copies to give away across Facebook & Instagram,
entries close 10am Monday 05/06/17 with winners announced in the comments. Good luck!
