July/August meeting

The July/August meeting of Book Circle and Pudding Club is tonight!

Random Acts of Heroic Love

Random Acts of Heroic Love is a novel with two intertwining threads. The first is a story:

1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever.

The second is loosely based on the true story of the authors grandfather who fought for the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI and was captured by the Russians in 1915:

1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When Moritz finally limps back into his village to claim the hand of the woman he left behind, will she still be waiting?

Two stories are told of two men who have had love ripped away from them and how the memory of that love sustains them through their lives.