The Limestone Road by Nicole Alexander ( Signed Copy)

In the summer of 1944 returning soldiers Canning Christie and his father Michael arrive in South Australia from the desert sands of North Africa.

Canning carries the trauma of war and a fractured memory of a terrible event, while charismatic Michael resumes his womanising ways, intent on concealing his own secret wound.

Inexplicably drawn to a vineyard on their land, Canning dreams of producing his own wine. And a chance meeting with Grace Huntley, daughter of the local landowner, offers him hope for that future.

But dormant memories keep rising his childhood with his mother, the years traversing the interior with his father and his time at the front.

Soon, viniculture becomes an obsession – one he suspects lies in a hazy recollection of a night in battle. To move forward Canning must reconcile the past, even if that means working with Italian POWs and accepting help from an immigrant German . . .

. . . And ultimately taking a stand against his own father, whose increasingly reckless behaviour is threatening to destroy their new life.

Nicole Alexander is the author of eleven novels: The Bark Cutters, A Changing Land, Absolution Creek, Sunset Ridge, The Great Plains, Wild Lands, River Run, An Uncommon Woman, Stone Country, The Cedar Tree and The Last Station.

The Limestone Road will be published March 2025.

Awards: The Bark Cutters – short-listed for an Australian Book Industry Award.

Non-fiction includes;
Poetry: Divertissements: Love. War. Society. – a Anthologies: Dear Mum / Great Australian Writers

Nicole lives in north-west NSW, Australia