Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia and overstays her holiday visa.Desperate to carve a life for herself as an illegal British migrant, she invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy: she is to meet the father of her children before she's thirty. But Yvette is already twenty-nine, and the quest takes her on a picaresque journey of self-discovery and transformation.Set in Perth against the backdrop of Australia's migrant history present and past, Nine Months of Summer is a moving, relevant and at times comical story of personal growth, purpose and coming of age.

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia and overstays her holiday visa.Desperate to carve a life for herself as an illegal British migrant, she invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy: she is to meet the father of her children before she's thirty. But Yvette is already twenty-nine, and the quest takes her on a picaresque journey of self-discovery and transformation.Set in Perth against the backdrop of Australia's migrant history present and past, Nine Months of Summer is a moving, relevant and at times comical story of personal growth, purpose and coming of age.

Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia and overstays her holiday visa.Desperate to carve a life for herself as an illegal British migrant, she invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy: she is to meet the father of her children before she's thirty. But Yvette is already twenty-nine, and the quest takes her on a picaresque journey of self-discovery and transformation.Set in Perth against the backdrop of Australia's migrant history present and past, Nine Months of Summer is a moving, relevant and at times comical story of personal growth, purpose and coming of age.