Mr Wigg
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'MR WIGG captivates to the end' Good Reading Magazine
It’s the summer of 1971, not far from the stone-fruit capital of New South Wales, where Mr Wigg lives on what is left of his family farm. Mrs Wigg has been gone a few years now and he thinks about her every day. He misses his daughter, too, and wonders when he'll see her again.
He spends his time working in the orchard, cooking and preserving his produce and, when it's on, watching the cricket. It's a full life. Things are changing though, with Australia and England playing a one-day match, and his new neighbours planting grapes for wine. His son is on at him to move into town but Mr Wigg has his fruit trees and his chooks to look after. His grandchildren visit often: to cook, eat and hear his stories. And there’s a special project he has to finish ...
It's a lot of work for an old man with shaking hands, but he'll give it a go, as he always has.
Inga Simpson
Inga Simpson began her career as a professional writer for the Australian government before earning a PhD in creative writing. Her novels Mr. Wigg, Where the Trees Were, The Last Woman in the World, and Willowman have earned a number of awards and honors in Australia, including the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year. She was awarded the final Eric Rolls Prize for her nature writing and has obtained a second PhD, exploring the history of Australian nature writers; her own account of her love of Australian nature, Understory, was published in 2017. Simpson lives on the New South Wales southern coast, among trees.
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