Corrugated Roads - Reviews

The West Australian Newspaper Review - Corrugated Roads This collection of 27 short stories (though they seem to be just chapters) forms a bleak, sometimes funny and sometimes harrowing novel about women and men, black and white, and the rough journey of a young girl in a drought-stricken Queensland town in the 1950s. It comes from a former Neighbours story editor who created the character of Charlene — which helped make Kylie Minogue a star — though some of its dialogue evokes another soapie stalwart — Home & Away’s ocker Alf Stewart. “You’ve salted the flamin’ water you bloody drongos” is what the country child hilariously exclaims on her first trip to the coast. G Dixon (formerly lowndes is an accomplished writer and editor whose evocative prose makes for a charming read. 

 (G Dixon comment: Cool. The reviewer is pretty insightful. Ray Meagher/Alf Stewart, the actor in Home and Away comes from Bollen about twenty-odd miles from Mitchell. We share a common background and language. My book got three stars.)