Troppo: Black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats - Paperback

by Madelaine Dickie (Author)

Indonesia, November 2004. After the Bali and Denpasar bombings, just before the Boxing Day tsunami.

Penny is drifting, partying, hanging out - a thousand miles away from claustrophobic Perth and her career-minded boyfriend. But things take a dangerous turn when she goes to work at Shane's Sumatran Oasis.

Caught up in the hostility directed at Shane, and flirting and surfing with the hell-man Matt, Penny soon finds herself swept into a world where two very different cultures must collide.

Author Biography

Madelaine Dickie has done all sorts of work to fuel a compulsion to write and an obsession with surfing. Madelaine's writing has appeared in numerous publications including GriffithREVIEW (2013), the American journal Creative Nonfiction (2012) and Hecate (2010). In 2011, she received a Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Award to move to West Java, Indonesia, and complete her first novel Troppo. In 2014, Troppo won the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award.