Darwin 1942 and as Japanese bombs rain down motherless Molly Hook the gravedigger's daughter turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta a razor-tongued actress and Yukio a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. Run Molly run says the daytime sky. Run to the vine forests. Run to northern Australia's wild and magical monsoon lands. Run to friendship. Run to love. Run. Because the graverobber's coming Molly and the night-time sky is coming with him. So run Molly run. All Our Shimmering Skies is a story about gifts that fall from the sky curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves. It is an odyssey of true love and grave danger of darkness and light of bones and blue skies; a buoyant beautiful and magical novel abrim with warmth wit and wonder; and a love letter to Australia and the art of looking up.
