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A review by missflamingo
The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom
4.0
This book review was published in the Noosa Today paper 15 June 2017.
Gin Toad’s life has been shaped by escape. From hateful parents to asylum; from asylum to sheep farmer’s wife, Gin has traded the possibility of a life with her music for untidy children, fetid foot smells and an uncultured husband who reads the dictionary in the dunny.
Friendless and isolated, she’s lost all hope until 2 Italian prisoners of war begin work at their farm. Before long their presence becomes another kind of escape for Gin. They may be prisoners from Europe but they speak her language of music and art and beauty.
Now Gin sees the ultimate escape for herself: to flee to Italy with the prisoner Antonio."
Gin Toad’s life has been shaped by escape. From hateful parents to asylum; from asylum to sheep farmer’s wife, Gin has traded the possibility of a life with her music for untidy children, fetid foot smells and an uncultured husband who reads the dictionary in the dunny.
Friendless and isolated, she’s lost all hope until 2 Italian prisoners of war begin work at their farm. Before long their presence becomes another kind of escape for Gin. They may be prisoners from Europe but they speak her language of music and art and beauty.
Now Gin sees the ultimate escape for herself: to flee to Italy with the prisoner Antonio."