Synopsis
We do not have a visitor's information centre because we do not encourage visitors. We are happy to be overlooked and forgotten, although we do have the telephone, the Internet and satellite television. We just don't want our village invaded by smelly four-wheel drive monsters, people with loud voices and noisy and rude kids. If you liked the ABC's Seachange and Grassroots, you'll love The Buggerum Intrigue. Set in a fictitious town in regional Victoria, Australia, the novel and the quirky characters it portrays will be familiar to anyone who's dared to live outside a major city and experience life in the medium to slow lane. Told by Reg Reid, the village's postman of 35 years, who'd always had ambitions to become a writer but had never managed it until now, the secret lives of the residents come alive. Think of the exposs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with a generous dollop of Peter Carey wit.
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À propos de l'auteur
Paul Sterling has worked in international trade in the private and public sectors in Australia and overseas. He now lives in Ballarat, writing short stories and novels. Paul has won more than two dozen prizes in regional short story competitions, and has had more than twenty stories and articles published in Australia. His first novel in English, the story of a French couple adapting to life in Australia, appeared on Australian bookshelves in 2005, distributed by Pan Macmillan.
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