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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Stay Away from Lightning Girl
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A sweetly lyrical and mystical love story from one of Australia's finest songwriters . . .

'Robert leant forward on his stool, not speaking directly to the old man but to the immeasurable space before him. Like he was a guest performing for the cameras on a crappy television program at four in the morning.'

"You're right. I have got a story to tell. A remembrance from a boy who didn't want to grow up."

Once upon a time Robert Moore, lead singer with the legendary Honeys, was front-page news. Then, when the band couldn't cut it in America, he faded into the kind of celebrity people recognise but can't put a name to. And now, having just been struck by a bolt of lightning meant for someone else, he's plain old dead.

But if he can explain his life to Maigret, the Lucky Strike smoking, whisky-drinking divine umpire of the afterlife . . . if he can explain about lightning girl and her sexy drugged up sister, about love and failure and hurt and fear, and about a talking dog called Biscuit . . . if he can only tell the story of a heart in conflict with itself, he might just be allowed to return to the sweet melancholy that is life.

Bittersweet, tender and funny, this book is a whimsical tale about the mysteries of the human soul. (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 1999 .
      Extent: 262p.

Works about this Work

Bad Boys and Cyberpunks Penelope Hanley , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 September 1999; (p. 24)

— Review of Surfing Antarctica : A Novel Liane Shavian , 1999 single work novel ; Stay Away from Lightning Girl Stephen Cummings , 1999 single work novel
Bad Boys and Cyberpunks Penelope Hanley , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 September 1999; (p. 24)

— Review of Surfing Antarctica : A Novel Liane Shavian , 1999 single work novel ; Stay Away from Lightning Girl Stephen Cummings , 1999 single work novel
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