This is Di Morrissey’s 20th book, arriving 20 years after she published her first — though she’ll be selling a lot more copies, having spent those years building a strong and supportive base of readers.
As the title suggests, The Opal Desert is set in and around Australia’s remote opal fields, in a small imaginary town not far from Lightning Ridge where three women, spanning three generations, have come to sort out challenges in their lives.
Kerrie is the new widow, who sacrificed her own art career to help promote her husband’s and must now beat her own path; Shirley is close to 80 and lives as a recluse beneath the opal fields after being abandoned by her great love; and young Anna is a promising athlete — but can she find the will and discipline to become a champion?
The fourth character in the book is Opal Desert itself — sometimes dry, sometimes shimmering, where the women find friendship and a way forward for each one.
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