All Our Shimmering Skies
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All Our Shimmering Skies
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Narrated by:
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Ruby Rees
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By:
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Trent Dalton
About this listen
The author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - the best-selling, critically acclaimed novel destined to become another Australian classic.
"A glinting, big-hearted miracle of a book." (Richard Glover)
"A work of shimmering originality and energy, with extraordinary characters and a clever, thrilling plot...unputdownable." (Sydney Morning Herald)
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.
"Dalton is an author of 19th-century expansiveness, one with a sense that intelligence, talent for characterisation and sheer narrative brio can still be the whole cloth of the writer's ambition...it is storytelling manna, fallen straight from the Territorian skies." (The Australian)
"Achingly beautiful and poetic in its melancholy, All Our Shimmering Skies is a majestic and riveting tale of curses and the true meaning of treasure." (Booklist, starred review)
"As Australian as outback red dirt and as universal as the sky young Molly Hook's journey takes place beneath, All Our Shimmering Skies is an open-hearted wonder, by turns heartbreaking and full of hope, no less than an instant classic." (Venero Armanno)
"Australia has a new literary hero. Molly Hook - part Cordelia, part Jo March, part Pippi Longstocking - pulls us into a story and a landscape that is mythic, beguiling and almost hallucinatory in its beauty. And instantly recognisable as our own." (Kristina Olsson)
"This is storytelling at its absolute purest, a truly courageous expression of longing, hope and love...against unimaginable odds." (Asher Keddie)
"All Our Shimmering Skies is the follow-up to Boy Swallows Universe we could have never imagined, but the one Dalton was destined to gift us. It's a story of heroes and villains, foxes and water buffalo, fighter planes and birds of prey, real magic and real love, epitaphs and aphorisms, lost treasure and lost life. It's a love letter to the nation. It's your favourite childhood adventure story dictated by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare, with a score by Franz Liszt. It's dead serious. It's completely ridiculous. It's all of these things and more." (Booktopia)
©2020 Trent Dalton (P)2020 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about All Our Shimmering Skies
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- Joy
- 19-10-2020
Great from start to finish!
Everything about this story was unique. Didn't want it to end. The narrator was brilliant. It would make a great movie. Can't wait till Trent Dalton's next one.
Bring it on!
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- Anonymous User
- 03-02-2021
Not as good as Boy Swallows Universe.
Too much violence for me. Long. Beautiful descriptions of Darwin and Litchfield Litchfield National park
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- Ruth
- 19-01-2021
Brilliant
Well written
Gripping
Heavy themes,well handled
Enjoyed it immensely
Had to turn it off sometimes to have a rest
Great characters
A history lesson as well
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2021
expected more
not as engaging as the first book, partly due to the narration, but also the plot outcome. Read as a series of events on the way to the finale.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-2021
Trent Dalton does it again
My favourite author hands down. Utterly original Iconic Australian story telling Heartfelt and so moving
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- Elizabeth
- 11-10-2021
Weepingly beautiful writing and narration
Ruby Rees embodies every word and every character in her narration of this stunning story. Can’t wait to see this on the big screen, where it is surely destined to be.
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- Jayne
- 06-12-2021
Hi five Trent and Ruby!!
Loved the book which was bought together to tell an outstanding story.
Ruby did an amazing job with her narration.
Thank you!!
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- Danie
- 30-11-2021
Spectacular
Beautifully written... And Narrated with feeling and emotion and character.. SO GOOD. Thank you Trent Dalton for being an amazing writer and giving us stories to love
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- Randelle McClure
- 28-12-2021
Fabulous!
This is the second Trent Dalton book.I have read and thoroughly enjoyed. The narrator did a fabulous job to bring Molly to life. Love, love loved this book!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-12-2021
shimmering skies wonderful
loved it. kept me at the edge of my seat. brought tears to my eyes
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