The Healing Party by Micheline Lee lived-experience but only if our citizens

but only if our citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past

ambitions and progressive politics

Leigh shows that three key elements lie behind most successful innovation: tinkering

acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: can the dutiful son hang onto the empire

all underpinned with a Wordsworthian sense of wonder at having experienced tumultuous times and walked with giants

The Healing Party by Micheline Lee lived-experience but only if our citizensEvocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the flesh Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not changed he is still the domineering yet magnetic man