Kreative Kookaburra Imprints

Carol, Volume 1: Emergent

Sydney, 1972.

Stunned by the death of her talented parents in a tragic accident, Carol Sheridan emerges from her trance to find their estate willed to her through a conditional Testamentary Trust. Although almost a stranger, the Trustee is her late father’s closest friend, a partner in their well-known city Law practice. Always intent on studying Law to join her father, she defies the prejudice of the small north coast town where she lives and achieves entry to University. In a time of changing social values, the Vietnam War, Whitlam and Women’s Lib, she moves to Sydney where she confronts the reality of ‘how grown-ups play’.Carol’s life story evolves organically through a faithful rendition of a bygone era. A ‘must-read’ for anyone keen to learn or revisit the Australian ethos of the early 70s.

Carol, Volume 2: The Golden Lakshmi

Sydney, 1973-74.

Carol Sheridan begins her five year degree in Arts/Law at Sydney University amidst conflicting ideas about the role of women. Independent, free-thinking, and privileged through the income of a Testamentary Trust, the friends who crowd her new existence – way-out Zandra, conservative Anna, ‘Gerry for short’ Geraldine, share her experiences amidst turbulent times.

Full of authentic public events that background personal adventures, the novel is a convincing portrayal of life for women in the 1970s.

Carol, Volume 3: Of Life and Lies

Carol Sheridan joined a huge group (for the era) of some Five Thousand women parading the streets of Sydney after the United Nations’ proclamation of International Year of Women in March, 1975. On November 11 that year, as she began her final exams for the Arts segment of her Arts/Law degree, Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam Government. Along with most feminists, Carol feared for the future of hard-won reforms when the Conservative Party returned to power after the following Federal elections. 

Convinced she can make a difference in the lives of women, she evolves her own subversive strategy to counter patriarchy from within while completing her first year at St James Law School, exposing herself along the way to the difficulties, dramas and betrayals that affect herself and her friends. 

Carol, Volume 4: The Trojan Horse

Sydney, 1977.

Carol Sheridan is in her final year at the St James Law Campus of Sydney University. Supporting her radical views by extensive research, she quietly obliges the conservative Law Faculty to reward her with top marks. Her studies consume most of her life and she has few interests aside from her small group of close friends.

When her guardian returns to Sydney, he hatches a scheme to change the status of women in both politics and the legal profession. Carol accepts the challenge and joins him. But she misreads events and learns through personal danger that idealism is a poor defence against greed.