Strange things are happening in the world: earthquakes, floods, snow storms in beachside suburbs. But the people of Dukkley Place have plenty to distract them from the increasingly erratic weather.
The World on Dukkley Place, the largest supermarket in the southern hemisphere, offers shelter from the storm. Inside this retail mecca through which all must pass you can get anything, anytime, you can even lose yourself. Amid its pulsating white light, The World is the only place where desperately lonely Estelle feels safe; where Colin will get his greatest opportunity to sell his soul for corporate success; where Harmony Ducksong, reincarnated American Indian, will find her true vocation; where Anna, the checkout chick, will learn how to cry and where Myles the mechanic will discover much more than his favourite brand of pickles.
It is also where Bob the retired butcher buys his sausages and the roses he gives to his true love Ruby Seaborne, the local fortune-teller and clairvoyant, dreaming that one day she'll say yes. But all the while, dastardly Kenneth Horcheque, proprietor of The World, is surveying his creation and plotting to expand his World into a Universe. Nothing and no one will stand in his way!
Except perhaps Elvis Presley who has been restlessly wandering the globe searching for his true identity (and stirring up the weather with his incredible magnetism). And when his friend Ruby Seaborne is threatened by the rapacious greed of Kenneth Horcheque and his World, Elvis gets mad - and he will get even. And if you think Elvis's appearance in this tale is quirky, wait till you discover who the tarot-reading narrator is.
Julie Capaldo's enchantingly satirical fable about truth, love and the choices we make will hold you spellbound as it reveals the magical secret to staying real in a world of phonies. Deliciously playful 'Weather' is a literary Rubik cube of New Age and Old Age philosophy on life's big questions - it'll make you laugh, and make you think.
