LOCAL writer, actor, raconteur and IT whizkid, Peter Robinson, could be Canberra’s answer to Raymond Chandler.
Assuming the pen name of “Pae Robin,” Robinson’s new book, “The Nun’s Tale,” starts off in familiar territory. Just listen to the blurb…. “Joe Vale flew from hometown Chicago to London – looking for a nun’s killer – but he’s got big problems: he’s fallen for a Soho nightclub dancer; she’s slipped him a Mickey Finn.” Some of the language, with its heavy stress on the present tense, could come straight out of Chandler’s pages.
But there the resemblance finishes. For as any member of the Canberra arts community who’s heard Robinson on ABC radio or hosting the annual ACT Arts Awards will know, comedy is never far away, so the novel’s promoters are describing it as “ a contemporary variation on Billy Wilder’s ‘Some Like It Hot!’”
Although fictional, Robinson points out, his book is built around “a strange (but true!) hypocrisy: while publicly opposing In-Vitro Fertilization, the Catholic Church supplied urine from menopausal nuns for the extraction of Follicle Stimulating Hormone; this hormone is prescribed solely for IVF patients.”
The book is an Xlibris print on demand publication and can be accessed at www.Xlibris.com.au or orders@Xlibris.com.au
Launch of The Nun’s Tale, by David Kilby, at Dymocks Bookshop in The Canberra Centre, 6pm Friday, June 28. All welcome.
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