Nate even invited him along on a cross-country road trip with his sister, and Jet couldn't be more excited. Thanks to the friend who rescued him, he's finally shedding the loser label he'd worn for years. But her confidence is shaken when she meets Nate's friend-the kid who'd bullied her years before, trapping her in a decade-long shell of self-doubt.įor Jet Wurm, losing his job and getting kicked out of his apartment were the best things that ever happened to him. Having overcome the crippling insecurities of childhood bullying, Lauren Bauman is eager to start her new job 1,000 miles away, and road-tripping across the country with her brother Nate and his new friend seems to be the perfect way to celebrate the move. A fantastically fun and funny read, Peter's new novel is a major achievement.Ĭan she forgive the man who once bullied her,Īnd learn that love keeps no record of wrongs? When Irene's husband Titch decides to enter the Redex trial, Irene goes with him as co-driver, and Willy as navigator. And he has a particular fondness for maps.
He lacks social confidence but is extremely well read, so much so that he's a radio quiz champ. Her next door neighbour Willy seems to be constantly in flight from his own life. The striking Irene is ahead of her time, a fearless, big-hearted, independently minded woman. We're in Bacchus Marsh in the 1950s, with car salesmen, an early aviator, and the lives of Irene Bobs and Willy Bachhuber. It's a tender and wonderfully wry portrait of Australia in the 1950s, reminiscent of Illywhacker in concerns and some characters.
He takes us on a wild ride around the country in 1954 by way of the famous Redex car trial, during which our protagonist, Willy Bachhuber, learns the poignant truth of his troubled past. Carey's most ambitious novel since True History of the Kelly Gang: a celebration and interrogation of the Australia of Peter's childhood.
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