Burning Eddy

Description

'Get a life, Fairy.' In the country, where his fifteenth summer has burned the life from the grass, Daniel Fairbrother is searching. Looking for something that will make tomorrow seem worth the effort. Something that will fix the rot in his family tree. He works in the Dutch woman's garden. Eddy's eighty-six. She can read Daniel's mind. She has a tattoo, a history, and can make music with her farts. In a shady corner of Eddy's garden, Daniel finds something growing...Hope. But something is burning.

Scot Gardner lives near Yinnar, a little town in Eastern Victoria, with his wife and three dryads. He works with young people who don't like school, and expectant fathers. He plays didjeridu and grows vegies. He loves Dreamtime stories and pyrotechnics. Burning Eddy is his third novel.