A story of
curiosity, love, hope and bicycles
Luigi’s
Freedom Ride
by Alan Murray
Luigi is a young boy growing up in Tuscany in the 1920s, dreaming of
cowboys
and adventure, when a young Englishman, passing through on his way to Rome,
gives him his first bicycle, thus sparking a lifelong passion.
When World War II begins, Luigi enlists with the Bersaglieri, the
Italian Army Cycling Corps, before unexpectedly finding himself fighting
alongside the Partisans. Despite encountering great sorrow and tragedy, Luigi’s
zest for life remains undiminished, and his next adventure sees him cycling
through the Holy Land, Turkey and Sri Lanka before finding an unexpected home -
and an extraordinary surprise - in Australia.
Luigi’s Freedom Ride shows how even a
small life, lived in the shadow of great events, can be rich in contentment and
spirit. An enchanting story which I greatly enjoyed.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Alan Murray is a widely published
historian particularly in the areas of coal mining, miners and their
communities in Australia. He has worked as a newspaper journalist and on
television documentaries and he writes short stories for radio. Luigi’s
Freedom Ride is his first novel. Originally from Edinburgh, he now lives in
the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
NZ
RRP $29.99 | Published by Fourth Estate
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