Hiding Place

<p><i>Here's some pidgin Mick and Garrick spoke rapidly. Who been dat pella? Where him been prom? You been subby him? Him been talk punny way ay? Him been kardiya bloke.</i></p><p><i>What? Mick shook his head quickly.</i></p><p><i>I said 'who is that man? Where is he from? Do you know him? Doesn't he talk in a strange way? He's a stranger in this place'.</i></p><p><b>It's 2017.</b> Mick Wilson's wife has taken off from Adelaide with a long-haul truck-driver and Mick's two little kids. In an attempt to find his family Mick a brick-layer and former top-level Australian Rules footballer blindly heads for Alice Springs.</p><p>In Central Australia where many people go to hide from their past Mick finds a different and challenging world. He stumbles into work on a remote cattle station with an Aboriginal community close by. He also finds three very different women who shape his destiny.</p><p>Racial tensions tangled personal relationships a mysterious mountain range and a struggling Aboriginal community and football team force Mick to become part of a strange new world and way of being. Across a cultural divide new understandings emerge in the most unlikely ways.</p><p>Through it all Mick searches and aches for his kids but because of the people he comes to know he's never alone.</p>