Synopsis "Parallel Lives: A lot can happen in 12 months"
"If it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs out with other ducks and is the best looking duck, someone's going to want to pluck it." Illy chases the world's biggest waves, until Hawaii's Pipeline claims him and he limps back to Melbourne. Amos chases tennis balls around the globe, until he realises he's become jaded. After a call from Illy, he agrees to join him. Grace is sent overseas after her mother is murdered. Disillusioned, she eventually drifts home but her life spirals downward, until an encounter in a DVD store. Sean has been nowhere and is going nowhere. One night in a North Carlton hotel, he meets Shirley. When they come together in an apartment block owned by a dysfunctional group of business people, their lives change forever. Read about their experiences with parallel trading in Thailand, Greenpeace, hookers, pipe bombs, the UN, frog farming, illegal border crossings, racism, the cost of life, Ecuadorian detention, Indian ashrams, corruption, possum herding, stalkers, Tamil Tigers, the Royal Thai Army and more.
