Tank Water by Michael Burge

Tank Water by Michael BurgeJames Brandt didnt look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge. The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers Jamess journalistic curiosity and his anxiety both of which cropped up during his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it is the unexpected homophobic attack he survives that

sage and hazelnuts or taleggio and potato pizza

With Love is my homecoming

and the consequences will be dangerous and unpredictable

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and the Administrator’s wife

These women came from strikingly different backgrounds with husbands who held sharply conflicting views

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each with their own culture

a wonderful glimpse into life in a remote outback town

assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals

Tank Water exposes more than one taboo of Australian life away from the big cities

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