Author Talk with Michelle Johnston
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect...
Join us at Subiaco Library when Perth author Michelle Johnston discusses her book Tiny Uncertain Miracles
About the book:
Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of his wife, his child and his faith when he is reluctantly thrust into the position of chaplain at a large public hospital. Shortly after arriving, he meets Hugo, a hospital scientist and a man almost as lost as Marick himself, who is working in a forgotten lab, deep in the subterranean realms of the hospital. Hugo is convinced that the bacteria he uses for protein production have - unbelievably - begun to produce gold. Is it alchemy, evolution, a hoax or even ... possibly ... a miracle? In the meantime, Christmas is approaching, the number of homeless outside the hospital is increasing, the Director of Operational Services is pressing Marick about his weekly KPIs, you can't buy chocolate in the hospital shop anymore, and Marick keeps waking with nightmares at 4 am every night. If ever a miracle was needed, it's now.
A tender, sweet, sad, gritty, slyly funny and unexpectedly uplifting novel about family, friendship, faith, love - and alchemy - Tiny Uncertain Miracles is a hopeful and luminous gift to all readers.
About the author:
Michelle Johnston is an emergency physician and author. She is a staff specialist at the Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department, an inner-city trauma centre, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at SJOG Murdoch. She has been a doctor for thirty-one years. Michelle’s debut novel, Dustfall, was awarded the Hachette/Queensland Writers Centre Developing Manuscript award in 2014, published by UWA Publishing in February 2018 – becoming their third highest selling book on record – and was shortlisted for the MUD literary debut novel prize in 2019.
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