'I began as a tiny spark in the dry grass.
'All I wanted was a friend. I found one in the wind, who helped me grow, who helped me fly!
'In the end, though, was the wind really my friend at all?'
(Publication Summary)
'The author of this grim account of a bushfire actually knows firsthand what it's like: he ran for safety with his Oma when he was just eleven years old during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. Adam Wallace has written the story as if he was the fire itself.' (Introduction).
'The author of this grim account of a bushfire actually knows firsthand what it's like: he ran for safety with his Oma when he was just eleven years old during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. Adam Wallace has written the story as if he was the fire itself.' (Introduction).
