All Our Shimmering Skies

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies— a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. Run, Molly, run, says the daytime sky. Run to the vine forests. Run to northern Australia's wild and magical monsoon lands. Run to friendship. Run to love. Run. Because the graverobber's coming, Molly, and the night-time sky is coming with him. It is a story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth, and secrets we bury inside ourselves. An odyssey of true love and grave danger, darkness and light, bones and blue skies; a buoyant, beautiful, and magical novel brimming with warmth, wit, and wonder; and a love letter to Australia and the art of looking up.