

But there isn’t, is there? When the whole of your world is football, sometimes life gets lost between goals.

Everyone thinks there’s something more going on between Shelley and Mick. Tara, whose cold silences Shelley can’t understand. So why don’t her friends get it? Josh, who she’s known all her life, but who she can barely look at anymore because of the memories of that fateful day. Joining a motley crew of footy tragics, and best of all, making friends with one of the star players. My face aches from smiling in the wind and my voice rasps from all the screaming, and I know that it’s been forever since I’ve felt so completely alive.’ Desperate to escape her grieving father and harbouring her own terrible secret, Shelley disappears into the intoxicating world of Aussie Rules football. No guilt for who’s missing, what’s been left behind. The Whole of My World is her debut novel, and this is the blurb from Fishpond:Īn unputdownable novel for anyone who’s ever loved or lost, drawn a line between then and now, or kept a secret that wouldn’t stay hidden … ‘Today I am free. Nicole Hayes is a freelance writer, editor and teacher who hails from Melbourne.
