The Lodgers
by Annette Creswell
When Mabel, a former Vaudeville performer, lands a job managing a boarding house on the ocean, she appears to attract a disparate cast of lodgers, all with unfortunate and dark lives.
When Therese, one of the lodgers, moves to the Outback to get married, Judy, also a lodger follows and one day Judy spots a Kookaburra in a nearby tree. When the bird laughs, an unexpected, wonderous miracle happens,