They say everyone has a book inside them. Some people are unfortunate enough to have more than one.
Lech Blaine’s first memoir, the acclaimed Car Crash (2021), dealt with the fallout of a motor vehicle accident that killed three of his mates and traumatised everyone else involved – including Blaine, who’d been riding shotgun when his friend’s Ford Fairlane veered onto the wrong side of the New England Highway on a Saturday night in 2009.
In his latest offering, the gloriously titled Australian Gospel, the car crash you can’t look away from comes in the form of Michael and Mary Shelley – the estranged, deranged parents of three of Blaine’s foster siblings.
