Many More Trees - Softcover

Emmaline Ross was a child of the foster-care system. She had no desire to deal with the reality that was her life, so she created the story she needed. Emmaline became 'Just Em. Like in James Bond'. Em Guy is 50-something when she decides to end her life. Her death is an abrupt shock to her family; they resent her for it. Her husband, Twain, hasn't the courage to contemplate life without Em. Her adult children could not differ more. For Biz, she was a stalwart refuge; for Thea an exacting constraint. For them both, Em's death is stunning and liberating. Em's lifelong friend Queenie simply hankers for what was. Many More Trees is the stories we tell in the narrative of our own lives. It's the lies we tell, the moments we capture, the events we choose to recall; how we call these memories and give them the status of fact. It is about the danger and joy of believing in stories. It's a story about - in the end - whether our lives are fact or fiction is irrelevant. Because, in the end, your home is... your prison... your sanctuary... where your heart is... where your story lives.

Meandering through an ordinary life of family, friends, work, boredom, adventure, fortune both good and bad, Janet came to realise we are all pretty darn good storytellers. Having used storytelling with a modicum of success in wrangling her two children to adulthood, climbing the public service monkey tree, and--with her infinitely patient and caring partner--the privilege of a 35+ year marriage, she has now turned to writing the stories of others. She is lucky enough to live on the beautiful, north coast of Tasmania with said IP&CP, and a cat who won't move out of home.