The Three Lives of One

Lesley June Mooney

MoshPit Publishing, Aug 6, 2017 - Fiction - 360 pages

This story occurs from the 1920s to the 1980s. A little island girl is rescued by missionaries after a tsunami, and this tragic event marks the start of a series of turbulent and challenging years as the girl moves between families and homes, her freedom and safety constantly at risk. Distraught when her adopted parents die, she's fostered and the father cares too much. After enduring a forced year in a brothel, she learns new talents for nursing, photography and singing which are finally recognised, then she's assaulted. Joining the Army in 1944 in New Guinea, Japanese forces attack and the girl and some others escape in a plane which is shot down. They are hunted, but rescued by a missionary in a small village, who offers a canoe for escape. Discovering her father too late, but a letter renews her hope, dreams and faith. With the missionary on his island, will true love be enough to overcome a tragic past and an unknown future?

About the author

Lesley June Mooney, (nee Hubbard) the author was born in Perth W.A. in the early thirties of mixed English/European blood- and educated at boarding Colleges there. When aged fifteen, with her father and brother, they travelled up North by train to Nullagine, then three days on a mail truck, Dad in the front and the two children out the back sitting on the stores; going to work at Roy Hill station, the first of three outback properties. After there on she enjoyed an interesting working life, a few weeks at Wyndham, nearly three years in Darwin and Sydney, then back to Perth. When over twenty one, she was asked to try Station cooking in Queensland, then cook for an elderly man helping the bush nurse, totally inexperienced. Met husband Ernie, they married moving to Mackay, and her brother died in Perth. Worked beside Ernie in his various building trades and ran a Dairy until he became ill for two years. Then ran a Bull stud, had six children and leased a country Hotel for six years until back to the bull stud. Their only son died at twenty one and her father later. As a Taurean, she is a creative lady - artist, dancer of all styles, pianist, singer, composer, writer & gardener and some travelling. Combined work in businesses until moving to a small acreage at Habana. After fourteen years of gardening, twenty of dancing, courses at U3A and TAFE, starting a tap group and theatre group for 45-70's entertaining Seniors, she began to write. First 480 poems called 'Fragments of The Mind', then completed five novels, gaining experience on the internet. Ernie passed away and with a loving family to help she continues to write, hoping to be recognized with success in publishing while possible.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Three Lives of One
• Author: Lesley June Mooney
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: MoshPit Publishing, 2017
• ISBN: 1925666344, 9781925666342
• Length: 360 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / 20th Century; Fiction / Romance / Historical / General