Four Fires

In the small town of Yankalillee, the Maloneys were at the very bottom of the pecking order. Had been for generations, with firm predictions that they’d stay there forever . . .

1955. Tommy, unlike other fathers, never talked about the war, not even on Anzac Day, but it broke his spirit, good and proper. So it was up to his big, booming wife Nancy to bring up the five children – Sarah, Bozo, Mole, Michael and Colleen – and to collect the town’s rubbish in her old army-surplus Diamond-T.

But circumstances change . . . and Nancy’s determined to make them change. Sarah wants to be a doctor, Bozo’s got the makings of a boxer, Michael has a passion for clothing and design, and Mole has the Maloney gift for fighting bushfires.

In the tradition of ‘The Power Of One’, ‘Four Fires’ is a story of the triumph of the human spirit.