Podcast: Michelle Johnston on Finding Stories in Everyday Situations

Podcast: Michelle Johnston on Finding Stories in Everyday Situations

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Michelle Johnston talks to Cheryl about finding stories in everyday situations and exploring why we believe what we believe in her latest book, Tiny Uncertain Miracles.

About the author:

Michelle Johnston is both an emergency physician and an author. On good days it is difficult to tell the difference. She is a Staff Specialist at the Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department, a busy inner-city trauma centre where she works as both clinician and teacher. Michelle’s first novel, Dustfall, was published by UWA Publishing in February 2018 and shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize for a debut novel in 2019. She speaks and holds workshops, for both doctors and normal people, about marrying critical care and creativity, and she is occupied searching for the beauty and awe in an often-brutal reality.

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Luminous: Read an Extract from Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston

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30 November 2022

Luminous: Read an Extract from Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston

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            Publisher details

            Tiny Uncertain Miracles
            Author
            Michelle Johnston
            Publisher
            HarperCollins
            Genre
            Fiction
            Released
            03 November, 2022
            ISBN
            9781460762714

            Synopsis

            Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of his wife, his child and his faith when he is reluctantly thrust into the position of chaplain at a large public hospital. Shortly after arriving, he meets Hugo, a hospital scientist and a man almost as lost as Marick himself, who is working in a forgotten lab, deep in the subterranean realms of the hospital. Hugo is convinced that the bacteria he uses for protein production have - unbelievably - begun to produce gold. Is it alchemy, evolution, a hoax or even ... possibly ... a miracle?

            In the meantime, Christmas is approaching, the number of homeless outside the hospital is increasing, the Director of Operational Services is pressing Marick about his weekly KPIs, you can't buy chocolate in the hospital shop anymore, and Marick keeps waking with nightmares at 4 am every night. If ever a miracle was needed, it's now.

            A tender, sweet, sad, gritty, slyly funny and unexpectedly uplifting novel about family, friendship, faith, love - and alchemy - Tiny Uncertain Miracles is a hopeful and luminous gift to all readers.

            Michelle Johnston
            About the author

            Michelle Johnston

            Dr Michelle Johnston is a consultant Emergency Physician who works at an inner city hospital.  Mostly her days consist of trauma and mess.She studied medicine at UWA, and gained her Fellowship with the Australian College for Emergency Medicine in 1998.She loves caring for patients and teaching, but is terminally confused by health bureaucracy and is an expert in meeting avoidance.She believes there is a beating heart of humanity, art, and beauty within the sometimes brutal reality of the Emergency Department, and she has dedicated her career to finding that sweet spot between creativity and critical care medicine.Books are her other oxygen, and writing her sustenance.

            Books by Michelle Johnston

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