Star Struck

Skylab—Last Days of the Space Age—set against the backdrop of rural Australia. A family's bonds are tested. Rose, a strong and determined heroine, navigates a tumultuous path through the aftermath of Skylab's crash.

1979 NASA's Skylab space station Skylab came plummeting back to Earth above Esperance, WA. A fiery apparition and a loud series of sonic booms followed. The event sparked this story Australian story of second chance love by Ryn Shell, an author who experienced the early days of the space age, watching Neil Armstrong in 1969, became the first person to walk on the moon as she prepared to give birth to her first child. A gatherer of Australian oral history as she traveled through Australia as an artist in her youth, and as a grey nomad in her mature years, Rose's story is close to Ryn's heart.
NASA's policies regarding space junk unleashed unforeseen consequences. Rose embarks on a journey of healing, piecing together the fragments of her shattered life, discovering that beyond the thrill and heartbreak of adolescent love comes the transformative power of the second chance—family love.