OzLit Book Club: Australian Gospel
The chosen title for The Book Cow’s November OzLit Book Club is Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine.
6pm, Wednesday 26 November
The Book Cow
47 Jardine St, Kingston ACT 2604
Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians - especially their 'reckless indulgence of alcohol and obsession with idiotic ball sports'.
Lenore and Tom Blaine are working-class Queensland publicans raising a large family in a raucous, loving, sports-obsessed home.
There's just one problem. Lenore and Tom are foster parents to three of Michael and Mary's children, who were removed from the Shelleys as infants. And the Shelleys are prepared to do anything to get them back. Anything.
Australian Gospel is the true story of Lech Blaine's family, a stranger-than-fiction tale that is heartbreaking, hilarious and altogether astonishing.
Buy the book on The Book Cow website or in store. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. New members are most welcome.