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For centuries the people of Kalimna Heights, a suburb of Sydney, have lived through joys and successes, grandiose achievements, and bitter disappointments - and tragedy stalks the inhabitants just as surely as does healing, forgiveness, and love.
With a stone-rendered church at its heart, the daily lives of its solicitors, book distributors, academia, families and friends are traced from the 1800s to the present day. Marriages and break-ups, dementia, crime, violence, and sudden death sprinkle a background of romance and of solidarity. as one incumbent minister after another follows through the years.
Mystery and mayhem, intrigue and emotion, laughter and pain, take us on a rollercoaster ride that thrills and shocks, and will leave you thinking about it long after the book's end.
About the author
Robert Simpson is a Presbyterian minister now resident in New Zealand's Christchurch. In 1969, he went to Port Moresby as a literature missionary. There he met and married his English wifeMargaret, an excellent nurse and midwife. They have four strapping sons who between them have produced seven grandchildren. Robert has worked in bookselling, publishing and insurance as well as serving the ecumenical church in Australia, Papua New Guinea, England and New Zealand. He is a graduate of the Bible College of NZ and, twenty years later, the United Theological College in Sydney, Australia. Some years later Robert retired through ill health. Following Clinical Depression and Electro-Convulsive Therapy, he had a severe Stroke, after which he had tolearn to talk, walk and write again. This took a long, long time but, gradually, he has authored devotional books and novels.
