The cover for Trent Dalton’s All Our Shimmering Skies is here!

When the news broke earlier this year that Trent Dalton’s second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, would be released in June 2020, you could practically taste the excitement in the air.

There isn’t anything we can say about Trent’s incredible, bestselling and award-winning debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, that hasn’t already been said. We loved it, you loved it, and now we’re all holding our breath, eagerly waiting for the next one.

Expectations are high, and they’re about to get even higher – today, the stunning cover for All Our Shimmering Skies was revealed.

Take a look:

With a gorgeous and colourful collage of native wildflowers, anchored by a blood red sun, this cover captures the unique and beautiful quality of Trent’s writing so perfectly.

Here’s the blurb:

“Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: a razor-tongued actress named Greta and a fallen Japanese fighter pilot named Yukio.

‘Run, Molly, run,’ says the daytime sky. Run to the vine forests. Run to northern Australia’s wild and magical monsoon lands. Run to friendship. Run to love. Run. Because the graverobber’s coming, Molly, and the night-time sky is coming with him. So run, Molly, run.

All Our Shimmering Skies is a story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves. It is an odyssey of true love and grave danger; of the darkness and the light; of bones and blue skies. A buoyant, beautiful and magical novel abrim with warmth, wit and wonder, a love letter to Australia and the art of looking up.“

Excited yet? I know I am!

All Our Shimmering Skies is out on the 16th of June – order your SIGNED copy here!

All Our Shimmering Skies

Signed Copies Available!

by Trent Dalton

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic.

Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions...

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