Review: All Our Shimmering Skies
Gaby Meares
Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, is twelve years old, and motherless, surviving a brutal life with her father Horace and uncle Aubrey, when the Japanese bombs rain down on Darwin in 1942.
She embarks on a journey to find Longcoat Bob, who she believes has put a curse on her family. Her travel companions are Greta Maze, a blonde bombshell actress and Yukio Miki, a Japanese fighter pilot, Molly’s ‘sky gift’ as he fell from the sky.
[a:Trent Dalton|17503523|Trent Dalton|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1541749971p2/17503523.jpg] has written another magical, lyrical novel that requires the reader to surrender to his poetic and romantic writing style. At times overblown, but always beguiling, I lost myself in this wondrous novel and will never forget the indomitable Molly Hook.