Five Days in Corfe: An Adventure

Four cousins, a dog and a crumbling castle on a mysterious island in the bay of a holiday village on the Dorset coast . . . Did you ever wonder what happened to all those characters in all those stories you read as a child? Four adults, Jonathan, Dirk, Jacq and Louise, are together again after more than thirty years. They return to the village of their childhood to find the landmarks are all still there – the island, the cottage, a limping stranger and lashings of country food – but who they were and who they have become is the real mystery.

Rosemary Fitzgerald is a playwright and fiction writer. She lives in Melbourne in a tiny apartment; where there is a cat, a writing spot by the window and no tv. Due to a recent obsession with minimalism, she is now less eight hundred books, four book cases, thirteen pairs of high heels and half the kitchen cupboards. She is also claiming ownership of a new verb: to konmarie. As in, "I konmaried all last winter and now have the makings for a capsule wardrobe". Five Days in Corfe is Rosemary's first novel.