Author: Curtis, I A
ISBN: 978-0-646-53472-5
Paperback
Extent: 164 pages
Category: General Fiction/Humour/Romance
Based on some real events, this entertaining story has been ‘fictionalised’ to
protect the innocent. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”, two Aussie blokes buy a discarded mannequin at a junkyard restaurant in Balmain. They discover her name is Miranda. Miranda is then transported by car north to a remote tropical island, with several adventures on the way.
Unable to raise the $5 million to build a resort that has been approved for the
island, they then decide to capitalise on the ‘passing trade’ of young fishermen and open an island ‘bordello’. Miranda is to be the Madam. Miranda starts to experience a ‘wakening’ of her powers as she has flash backs to her previous life. She discovers Ariel and Caliban are also on the island; who state that they are her baggage.
The harmony is disrupted when Cyril arrives claiming to be the owner of the
island and attempting to evict them. Cyril is given the ‘bums rush’, only to return with an invading party. Miranda whips up a Tempest, and their ship is lost.
Cyril commences legal proceedings and Caliban is charged with the task of
obfuscating proceedings by Miranda. The trio then enter a Golden Age on the island where everyone is happy, and Bluey builds a house for Miranda.
