Published: September 25, 2019
At times I questioned why I was doing it. I hated my father. Why was he worth a book?
Sundowner of the Skies: The Story of Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator had a long gestation. It wasn’t the sort of book that grabbed me by the throat and said “write me now”.
Until I embarked on this journey, I knew little about my father’s life as an aviator. When I was growing up in Tauranga, New Zealand, he seldom talked to me about anything, except to bark orders. By then he was a tomato grower but commanded our family as if he was still the captain of a flying boat. I only became interested after writing an article for the Australian Financial Review in 2005.
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