Ted Bachman

Greville Street Ted Bachman

The counterculture in Melbourne had a heart and it was Greville Street. It sprang into being in 1970 in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran and quickly attracted a mottle of young people - hippies, artists, seekers, alternative lifestylers and musicians eager to embrace the new age in a like minded community where the charm was priceless and rent was cheap. At its apogee the street was a vibrant village of intrepid trailblazers pushing at the boundaries of social order and personal consciousness. Psychedelic substances and cannabis were their sacraments, consciousness expansion and fun their goals. Based on actual events this novel focuses on a small group living in one of the shop dwellings and follows the trail of a young man from a sleepy country town as he comes of age catching up on what he has been missing. While discovering the world's treasures and iniquities he tries to make sense of his existence at a time when everything is a-changing. Honest, insightful and humorous, this novel relives those strange days for those who were there and for those who missed them because they weren't born at the right time.