Maria Holt

She Was Wearing Red Maria Holt

A young child goes missing from an Italian-Australian festival in a Far North Queensland rural town where the cane fields meet the sea. The investigations and search that follow uncover more than just the truth about what happened to that little girl as the reader gets to know her mother and an assortment of their extended family and friends. While it is a work of fiction, She Was Wearing Red draws inspiration from the author's experiences as an Italian-Australian growing up in regional Far North Queensland. She successfully shines a light on the tireless, often thankless, work that community volunteers undertake, especially those in the State Emergency Service (SES).