Summer's Gone

The story of Summer's Gone begins when Nick is given a banjo that leads him to form a folk band with his best friend, Mitch, and two sisters from Melbourne, Helen and Alison.The novel details Nick's relationships with both sisters, and explores the reality of coming of age in Australia in the 60s and 70s; the music business, sexual freedom, women's rights, and the fight against conscription are among the ingredients of a story that moves between Perth and Melbourne, between hitching lifts across the Nullarbor and flying across in the newly arrived Jet Age.