Author(s): Bruce Russell

General Fiction

Ben Wallymacher has always struggled to keep up with Francis. Friends from childhood, their lives diverge as they battle with the big questions - relationships, fathering, the limits of spontaneity, the usefulness of seventies obsessions life the 'human potential movement' - until they're drawn together again by Francis' elusive daughter, Piaf. This ironic, comic novel flits from the past to the present, weaving a table of life's journey with some pretty interesting pit stops - geodesic domes, psychodrama and gurus, armed robbery and prison, New York and Fremantle, the Chelsea Hotel and Adele's B & B. It's about an ordinary man trying not to make too much of a wally of himself.