Micky Darlin'

by Victor Kelleher

Micky is the blessed one, the darling of the Donoghues and their hope for the future. This larger-than-life Irish family - viewed through the eyes of it's youngest member - is passionate, eccentric, prone to extremes of love and violence. It is also falling apart.

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Allison, and taught at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.

Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the Australian Children's Book Award.