Love, blood and pasta over three decades in Brisbane.
She used to sell her kisses for caramels; her lips went for long licks of liquorice and her touch for tangerines and tutti frutti. She looked as Irish as rain out of a sunny blue day and as English as green meadows where wildflowers grow, and her name was Gabriella Maria Santuzza Zazo. When Gabriella moves in next door to 14-year-old Sam with her parents and her ageing grandfather – a man who carries the secrets of their Mediterranean island inside his slowly darkening mind – Sam knows that his life will never be the same.Set in Brisbane’s Sicilian community over three decades, from 1975 to 1995
, Firehead is an eerie story of generations of love, of police corruption and a city’s changing terrain, and of searching for one place in the world you can finally say is home. This is sensuous, compelling storytelling with an aching mystery at its heart. 
