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Jon Doust on the misadventure of a lifetime in 'Return Ticket'


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It’s 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel.In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking those things he needs: a mother’s precious gift, a lover in a time of war, the loss of a child, a kind and steady woman.And, across time and across continents, old Jack Muir will remember those who helped him become a decent man, a better father and a friend.In this episode, Western Australian author Jon Doust chats with Greg Dobbs about 'Return Ticket', the final book in his trilogy that began with the Booker longlisted 'Boy on a Wire'. Grab a copy: https://bit.ly/2Y9AZIj
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