Fearless

‘wouldn’t It Be Great To Be A Bird For A Day? To Be Truly Free As Anything Alive Can Be. Free, Jossie. Wouldn't It Be Insane?’ When Joss Sets Off Down The South Coast, She Is Fleeing Both A Miserable Marriage And Her Lonely Childhood. Fleeing From All Her Wasted Years. At The Same Time She Is Pursuing Karmi, A Long-ago Friend Who Once Showed Her Another Way To Live. The Magnetic, Free-living Karmi Embodies Everything Joss Wants To Be, Even After Their Shared Adventures Come To An Abrupt End. Now Joss Is Fleeing To Rebuild Her Life. She Still Believes Karmi Has The Key, But Finding Her Proves Not So Easy. The Coastal Region Is Facing Changes, From Forest Logging To Spreading Urbanisation. Joss Is Thrust Into Town Life In Mungabula, Then A Remote Bush Settlement, Where She Takes On Karmi's Model Of Courage To Absolve Her Past. Not The Least Of Her Challenges Is The Laconic But Disarming Fletch… About The Author Rowan Hagen's Curriculum Vitae Has Two Parts: Curriculum Refers To Her Post-graduate Studies In The Humanities, And A Course In Creative Writing Focused On Poetry. Her Poems Have Been Published In Navigations (wa), Fearless Books (berkeley Ca), And Online. Her Novel Darlo Was Published In 2008 By Short Stop Press Vitae Refers To Her Life Experience Of Working In Cafés And Restaurants, And Her Travels Through Various Cultural And Geographical Landscapes Of Australia, Wherefrom She Draws Much Inspiration For Her Novels. Rowan Is Now Based In The Blue Mountains. This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a fifteen metre WAVE! The Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, a lump of Ice about the size of France, is forecast to collapse into the sea creating a fifteen metre tsunami that will race around the globe destroying much of the world as we know it. This dire prediction, made by the British Antarctic Survey, New Zealand Scientists, and the Pentagon is ignored by most of the world's population; but not by beautiful, smart Tanya who has worked her way up from poverty to the top of Sydney society, or, to her surprise, by her father-in-law David Bower. They persuade the family to abandon their happy, fulfilled lifestyles to create a secure settlement in the Blue Mountains, enabling them to survive the catastrophe but witness the complete destruction of Sydney and all of Australia's coastal cities. From this, the depths of despair, they find ways to start to rebuild the vibrant society that once existed When Joss sets off down the south coast, she is fleeing both a miserable marriage and her lonely childhood. At the same time, she is pursuing Karmi, a long-ago friend who once showed her another way to live. The magnetic, free-living Karmi embodies everything Joss wants to be. Now Joss is fleeing to rebuild her life, she still believes Karmi has the key, but finding her proves not so easy. The coastal region is facing changes, from forest logging to spreading urbanisation. Joss is thrust into town life in Mungabula, where she takes on Karmi's model of courage to absolve her past. And not the least of her challenges is the laconic but disarming Fletch