What's Inside?
A signed book - 'The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains' by Sarah Clutton.
A candle - Taking inspiration from the Australian bush, this blend of Australian Sandalwood is a rich, earthy fragrance.
An alcoholic beverage - Ninth Island Pinot Noir - Produced in Tasmania by a family owned winery, this Pinot Noir showcases their cool climate vineyard with aromas of raspberries, boysenberry with red cherries and hints of earthy spice.
or a non-alcoholic beverage - TasPop Raspberry Lemonade - Produced in Tasmania, this lemonade is squeezed from fresh Aussie lemons & spiced with Tasmanian Native Pepper berry. The addition of Pepper Berry is what gives this tasty beverage its beautiful pink hue!
A bookmark - Embedded with Austral Indigo seeds simply sow in well-draining soil in full or part sun and enjoy purple flowers in late winter and early spring.
A surprise - Elly’s Real Toffee Fudge - Handmade in Hobart, Tasmania, this decadent fudge is a delicious treat. You won’t be able to put it (or the book) down!
About the book...
Alfie's mum, Emilia, has been lying to him forever.
It's only been the two of them in Ireland, but when Emilia's appendix explodes, she drops a bombshell: they have a family back in Australia, and she and Alfie are going to meet them.
When Penny Bains opens the door of her Tasmanian farmhouse to a boy with an Irish accent claiming to be the son of her missing daughter, Emilia, her life is turned upside down.
Alfie needs to know who his father is, but the residents of the tiny town of Beggars Rock and his newly found grandmother and great-aunts are all staying silent. As Alfie starts to uncover secrets that his family would prefer to keep buried, the one thing he does discover is that no one is willing to tell him the truth.
About the author...
Sarah Clutton lives in a storybook village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on Gundungurra and Tharawal country.
She has tried her hand at various jobs: research assistant, judge's associate, insurance claims guru, litigation lawyer, philanthropic foundation manager and ghost-writer. In between freelance writing gigs she is events manager for her local chapter of Rural Australians for Refugees.
In 2018 she was the national recipient of the Dymocks/McIntosh Commercial Fiction Scholarship.
The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains pays homage to her early years on a farm in North West Tasmania, and to the charms and challenges of small-town living.
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