The Program Effect: A Will Johnston Mystery

The Swan Island Connection, the second of my sea-change mysteries, will be . took for nine weeks after her twelve-week standard chemo program was finished. abound, but they never feel intrusive in the text, or stuck on for effect.
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The second is from a short play I wrote for history week , and shows Ettie played by Laura McMahon reading on the veranda. The play took place in the garden, where the audience sat, and on the spacious veranda. Talking to Brigid and thinking about her project got me wondering about literary pilgrimages and why people travel long distances to visit the homes of their favourite authors.

I sometimes fantasise about visiting Shrewsbury in England, where Ellis Peters set her Cadfael series. I imagine the cobbled streets and tiny, close-packed houses. But mostly I would have to go about in blinkers.

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There is supposed to be a tour where the tour guide takes visitors to see the bench the devil sat on. I did go inside once, as a special favour, and was disappointed by the modern renovations. The front garden, though, is recognisably what it would have been in the s, when the Richardson family lived there for about eighteen months.

Such a short time, at least from an adult perspective. My script for the play features Ettie and her younger sister, Lil, left alone in the house to mind their father, while their mother, Mary, was learning book-keeping and Morse code at the post office. She had to do something to support herself and the girls since Walter was incapable of doing so. When the Richardsons arrived in Queenscliff, Walter was still talking about working as a quarantine officer and developing a private medical practice, but it quickly became apparent that he could do neither.

Those eighteen months witnessed the rapid decline that ended with him being committed to a Melbourne mental asylum. From Mercer Street, Walter wandered off and got lost, fell into vociferous arguments with shop-keepers and people in the street, had to be fetched home by his elder daughter, then aged eight years old.

I like to walk up and down Mercer Street, paying tribute silently, anonymously. The house has always seemed to me a heart of darkness.

Even on sunny days it seems surrounded by a cloud of dread. And there are the two girls, Ettie bouncing a ball repeatedly, doggedly, against a blind wall of the house — so the legend goes — while she made up stories that took her as far away as possible from Queenscliff.

And my heart goes out to them. Childhood homes are like that, mostly, though a lucky few escape — compounds of misery and hope and desperate fantasies. The Swan Island Connection, the second of my sea-change mysteries, will be launched in Queenscliff, Victoria, in October. Anthea Merritt is his young assistant, trained in Melbourne and reluctant to bury herself in a coastal town. The plot revolves around the secret training base on Swan Island, close to Queenscliff, and the connection between soldiers training at the base, the local police and CIU, and an investigation into the death of a ten-year-old boy.

Though the existence of a training base on Swan Island was denied for years by successive federal governments, Brian Toohey and Bill Pinwell, in their book Oyster: They did a study and found that the lead in the bullets has been turning all the snails into males. Local legends date from the time when regular army personnel were allowed to have their families living with them on the island. One woman recalls a birthday when she was a small girl, how she and her friends had gone for a walk in their party dresses and come upon a soldier in full combat gear lying in the marram grass.

Another incident involved a night-time exercise, with trainees climbed across roofs and one inadvertently jumping down onto the family dog. Part of the island is occupied by a golf club and my favourite story is about my mother and a group of critically endangered orange-bellied parrots.

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Each winter the parrots used to fly across to Swan Island from Tasmania and my mother, a keen environmentalist and bird-lover, used to observe and record them. My mother was allowed permission to enter the golf club part of the island. Mum was a small woman, though by no means a cowardly one. Towards the end of As The Lonely Fly, a mother writes to her daughter about a woman who has been a strong influence on both their lives, and from whom they have not heard for eight years.

We are all idealists, why else would we be here, but she was more so. But Chava remained for me a focal point throughout. I did not find her impractical, or ignorant of people; quite the opposite in fact. Or am I wrong? What are readers meant to think? Chava joins the Labour Battalion, draining a swamp, then building roads and planting trees.

The battalion attempts to create good relationships with its Arab neighbours. They planted them along the shy river. When the sun slipped towards the sea they lit another fire. But jobs are scarce. Row upon row of citrus trees stretched out, all a neat size, their leaves the same dark ceramic green.

The air smelled sweet though the blossoms had gone and the fruit was still ripening; she imagined the sweetness came from the sap itself. The hills were studded with grape-heavy vines, the soil was drained a rich chocolate brown, watered with channels from the river and underground springs. How often had she heard this had once been a swamp? It was another thing to see. During the day they work; at night they dance and sing and argue about politics.

The dreams of the immigrant are a constantly recurring theme in As The Lonely Fly, expressed in songs, in conversation and argument, in the hope of safety and freedom from persecution, in images of physical toil that mean something because they are contributing to building a home. But in Palestine in the s and 30s, daily life can never be separated from its political context — the machinations of the British, the rise of Hitler and Stalin.

As the title suggests, As The Lonely Fly is quintessentially a story of exile and migration; and for humans, if not for birds, this is a lonely business. Each of the three women the novel centres on must make her own decisions and adjustments, and, perhaps inevitably, end up being misunderstood by other members of the family. As The Lonely Fly tells an important, timely story, through its rich variety of characters and beautiful prose. When I stopped to think and wipe my eyes, I asked myself why I was laughing when the author was going through hell. I was laughing because she made me laugh. Why wait to be bald I say?

No word or movement thankfully on the eyebrows and lashes as yet. As my sister reminded me though, we McDonald girls come from staunch Celtic, Methodist stock which means we have eyebrows like John Howard and leg hair like the family dog. It is insouciant, irreverent, compassionate and warm.

As readers would expect, anger and sadness, nausea and crushing fatigue are part of the story. They are acknowledged and dealt with.

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