Tess Merlin – 'Red Dirt Blue Lights'

Bookings required. To reserve your place, visit Eventbrite or call the library. Join Tess Merlin as she shares her latest novel Red Dirt Blue Lights.

In a place and a time where most choices are taken from you, Jemma has a big decision to make. Stay in the confines of Cherbourg Aboriginal Community and look after her Nan, or run away to begin a new life with Syd. Nan has always been her rock, but Syd is the love of her life.

At midnight on the full moon Jemma must make her choice. In the 1970s the Queensland police have a poor reputation for their interactions with Indigenous people, but young policewoman Tess is new to town and as yet uninfluenced by the pervasive racism. On her first visit to Cherbourg she finds a whole world she never knew existed and questions that she had never imagined. But finding the right answers really comes down to who you ask. A unique perspective on life in and around Cherbourg—a small Queensland town with a big history.

Books will be available for purchase, or bring your copy from home to be signed. Presented as part of the Lord Mayor’s Writers in Residence series.

Bookings

Bookings required via Eventbrite.

Venue address

Zillmere Library, Corner Jennings Street and Zillmere Road, Zillmere