The Weave

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a book of fiction with foundations in the past tracing how people of hope through four generations and across three continents follow threads of dreams and ambitions to where destiny leads them. Their loves passions bravery and endurance guide their way. Roots of this story lie in factual Australian history.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the death of her mother a 17-year-old girl Nonie wonders what she will do. The tenth child of her Irish parents who had migrated to Australia in 1877 she feels continuing affinity with her mother and on her own death 50 years later her only daughter has similar feelings a strange sense of continuation of one person.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In another place Joel a young Aboriginal boy bent on playing football is dissatisfied with his life and determines to take every step forward through school and university. He becomes a lawyer and escapes the city to fulfil his ambitions for his people in a more relevant area. His role model is his Uncle Charlie.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile a South American man Alvaro has settled in Australia with an Australian wife and two children and returns from a recent visit to his homeland disturbed by his loves and loyalties in his present life and the past. His wife seeks to help him resolve his uncertainties.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By chance these assorted characters meet up and experience harmony through their meeting.</span></p>