Check out the prequel to Jackie McCarthy’s debut novel.

Your free short story introduces the lives of three epic characters, revealing the ghost-mothers – before they were ghosts.

Meet Audrey, Australia’s most decorated WWII spy and saboteur from 1950; Deborah, a preeminent feminist from 1970; and Nicole, a Nobel-Prize-winning climate scientist from the year 2000.

You can read the short story either before or after reading the novel, there is no set order. Happy reading!