P. A. Hallett

When injustice and revenge meet love, forgiveness and a brutal warThree children's lives collide during the blood and bullets of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Australian outback hunting trip. One is scarred for life, another snatches a magpie feather and runs for his, and the other tries hard to put that life behind her. Their brief light of gathering is lost forever, or is it?History has a funny way of turning in on itself - redemption in a broken land, a gun fired in Sarajevo, the brutality of the Western Front - light in a dark place.
We're just shooting stars is the powerful telling of who we are in a world that is never as it should be. More about the origins of this storyThe history books tell us a 'local person' led Archduke Franz Ferdinand's hunting party through the bush near Narromine, NSW, Australia in the 1890s. What if this person was a young Wiradjuri boy, forced to assist but hoping to protect the totem animals for his people?Shots are fired, but not only animals are hit - and the consequences lead all the way to World War I.
This is just part of the epic journey of We're just shooting stars: Darkness comes, but light is never lost.