Slipstream

When the body of a young heiress is found and her baby, ripped from the still warm corpse, is taken; the woman’s half-brother swears to bring those responsible to justice. It is a task that appears almost impossible until years later when he discovers the child’s name, Raven.

Now, in a post-apocalyptic world, Raven lives on the edge of society, earning her living immersed in the electronic chatter and detritus of a future, drowned world. And then Ceriful crosses the boundaries, bringing the slipstream in his wake.

Ceriful – sometimes demon and sometimes angel, but always dangerous – a being from another reality, part fantasy, part product of those who still dream, and oh so enticing. Ceriful needs Raven to restore his realm, and he brings with him a promise. Now Raven’s decision will either save his world, or hers.

But when the fantastic becomes real, people die!

Raised in the most southern of Australian cities, Hobart (Nipaluna), capital of the heart-shaped island of Tasmania (Lutruwita), gateway to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Impacted by the mystical land of her childhood, Alice can recall days of climbing through Eden-like forests and around glacial waterfalls, where mystical ravens and colorful parrots flew through the Antarctic Beech forests, adding to her sense of wonder in the world around her. Her family were European exiles from various countries from Turkey to Lithuania. She is the first mother in four generations to give birth to her children in the same country she was born in. Her first job was in the Editorial Library of The Mercury newspaper in Hobart before joining the chaotic, colourful world of fashion in a design studio off Chapel Street in South Yarra, Melbourne. Eventually she headed further north to Sydney and some interesting years working at the Museum of Contemporary Art situated between the iconic Harbour Bridge and the Opera House on Circular Quay.Around this time she began writing and her first short story was shortlisted in the Northern Territory awards and printed in their anthology 'Extra-Territorial' and so she continued, stopping briefly for a few years when her two sons took her on other adventures. Slipstream is Alice's first published novel. You can find more about her by visiting her website http: //www.alicegodwin.com