Ian E Hart has worked with ideas and stories all his life, as an academic in Australia, Europe and Chiba, as an actor and theatre maker, and as writer-director of over 30 broadcast documentary and fiction films. He had written three novels and is working on a fourth,
Ian lives in Canberra, Australia.
Forgetting Business (Part 1 of The Kerosene Creek Mysteries)
In July 1888, the entire population of the Southern Highlands village of Kerosene Creek disappear without trace. A month later, a young woman appears on the steps of Saint Bridget’s Convent, starving, distressed and mute. Her name is Jindy Fiadh Kelly and she appears to be the sole survivor, but she has completely lost her memory. Aboriginal tracker Jimmy Sugarbag calls it “forgetting business”. Amateur psychologist Sister Thomas diagnoses “hysterical amnesia,” and she believes that recovering Jindy’s memory may hold the answer the Kerosene Creek mystery; but Jindy’s burning need is to discover the fate of her Ngunnawal mother. The three of them return to the abandoned vi...
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