By Margaret Maccoll
Author Edward Dregg said he had changed the names in his novel to “protect the guilty” and cleared it with all the criminals – but who will you recognise when you read No One in Particular?
The author arrived in Noosa in the 1960s. Originally from Birmingham, he’d been travelling around South East Asia when he needed a break and ended up in his version of paradise.
The book tells the story of his journey from the grey, smoky city of Birmingham to the pristine beaches of Noosa that was filled with hippies from the 1940s when he arrived – but how has it changed.
“It was fabulous. This town has grown on crime and corruption. I’ve seen it evolve. This place is not what it was,” he said.
Annie from Annie’s Books describes the book as “as a rollicking tale – definitely a case of truth being stranger than fiction”.
“The author has a unique style with his writing, and just about everything else he does,” she said.
Annie has organised an author talk with Edward Dregg on the footpath outside Annie’s Books in Peregian Village at 6pm on 28 September.
