A tender, funny and moving story of how a love for wild things can heal the wildness of the human heart.

Donny Taylor, a reclusive Vietnam veteran, lives in Granville Harbour on Tasmania’s remote west coast. One morning, he spots an elderly woman shovelling something off the road.

Thinking she might be in some difficulty, he stops. What he doesn’t know, is that he is the one who is about to be rescued.

About the author: Steve Tolbert published nine young adult novels between 1991 and 2010. His two adult novels – Playing Lady Gaga, Being Nan Pau (2017) and Last Stop Ladakh (2021) – are set in Myanmar and Northern India respectively. Nowhere Man and the Roadkill Lady (2024) is his first book with Forty South Publishing.