Flight is a metaphysical thriller in which the classic narrative patterns of the adventure story and the spiritual journey are intermingled. The protagonist, Fern, is a young woman so damaged by her past that she has withdrawn from reality behind closed doors. But reality has not abandoned her and soon comes knocking.
The story of how Fern learns to face the real world raises questions about the nature of reality itself and our perception of it. Her journey is played out against a background of myth and metaphor; sometimes eerie, sometimes earthy, always spellbinding. This contemporary gothic thriller grips the reader from the first page.
The story opens in Sydney where Fern has immured herself in the attic of a rented terrace house. When her house-mates pack up and leave, Fern is forced to face the outside world. But her past is waiting for her and Fern is soon running scared as her sanity and beliefs begin to unravel.
Beleagured by memories and otherworldly visions, Fern gradually learns to trust her own powers and perceptions. When someone or something begins to attack her through her dreams, she decides it’s time to stop running and start looking for answers.
Together with Adam, an ex-soldier haunted by the past, Fern embarks on a journey which takes them from inner-city Sydney to the labyrinthine depths of the Tasmanian wilderness, where she must finally face down her demons.
In Fern’s search for wholeness and self-knowledge, she learns that help can come from mysterious and surprising places, and that the greatest danger of all is the life unlived. As Fern heself soon discovers, in order to fly, one must first be willing to fall.