But she refuses to talk about her ex-husband, with every attempt by Eli to learn more about his father, denied. Their mum says August stopped talking around the time she left their dad. Tabloid newspapers dubbed Slim ‘The Taxi Driver Killer,’ but Eli just calls him his babysitter.Įli’s younger brother August doesn’t speak, ‘ He can tell you how happy he is in the way he butters bread, how sad he is in the way he ties his shoe laces.’ Although Eli loves August for who he is, nobody knows why the young lad stays silent. Trent Dalton’s first book, Boy Swallows Universe is a funny, tender and raw coming of age story set in 1980s Australia.Īfter a six-day trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court, Slim was sentenced to life for bashing a taxi driver to death with a Colt 45 pistol.
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