The Shady Tree by W E (Bill) Harney and Douglas Lockwood

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Pages have sunned, with some foxing marks on a few pages. Binding is still very good. Dust jacket has significant wear to top edge and has some marks on the back cover. Now enclosed in a protective plastic covering.

Bill Harney was a self-taught writer who could spin a tale with a warm literary style. He had an exuberant liking for people and enjoyed being with them. In 1962 he decided the time had come to cease his wanderings and rest beneath a shady tree. He chose to live in Mooloolaba on the Queensland coast. Twelve months later, he dies.

Bill left his manuscripts to his friend Douglas Lockwood. Among them was the unfinished draft of the story of the last eighteen months of Bill's life. In this book, we travel with Bill from Darwin to Mooloolaba. (book flap)