Lucy has her life all planned out - perfect job at 21, engaged to ideal man at 26, married at 27 and a half, building ideal home at 28 (fully equipped with a stereo surround sound wide screen TV and a comfortable, yet stylish, couch), birth of perfect daughter at 30. What does not fit into her neatly organised life is a mother with a bombshell, an ex-best friend with an unfortunate liking for low-life boyfriends, a series of badly dressed, metallic eyeshadowed teachers and a (very) friendly boy next door

Early in the 21st century, Joseph Peek turned into another person. Now, eighty years later, journalism student Aldo Frewin discovers who that person was - and why he's now living as Jarom Woodruff, aged sixteen, in a troubled Mormon cult in remote Tasmania. For members of this cult, the End of the World is imminent, and the Rapture awaits. For Aldo and his uncle, time is also running out. They need to know - will Jarom die as Joseph died before they uncover the truth? Has a genetic experiment changed the course of history?

Carl Matt hasn't got much. There's just his younger brother Harley and the old red barge to Wiseman's Cove. And nothing's going to take those away from him. He's an awkward, lumpy fifteen year old. Not the hero type. Yet Carl has become one of the most memorable characters in Australian literature