Novel Pitch:
When Jarrad's life story turns negative, Tree steps in to help and decides that by including Jarrad's grandpa Cluffy, his daughter and her boyfriend as characters, a better understanding of Jarrad's sometimes quixotic thoughts will transpire. Jarrad is determined to ensure that his future self will inherit his estate, but his solicitor encounters unexpected problems.
Novel Synopsis:
In 1872, a refined Welsh singer begot Cluffy, who sires three sons and four daughters with some assistance from his gorgeous wife, Maggie. A robust indifference to his competence ensures he tries to please everyone he meets. Now retired but working on a short contract in the Kimberley in 1938, he collects a Boab tree seed, germinates it, names it Tree and returns to Melbourne. His daughter Jo marries Jack, and they live in Maggie and Cluffy's spare room at the rear. While Jack assists in defending Britain during WWII, Cluffy builds Jo's new brick house but dies before Jack returns from the Siege of Tobruk. Then, in October 1945, Jarrad was born, beginning a long relationship with Tree.
Now seventy-nine, disheartened by the feedback of the first seventeen pages of his autobiography, Jarrad decides to return to his passion for plant propagation. Jarrad wanted to write about meditation, reincarnation, ancestral trait transfer, and the gradual downfall of democracy. The philosophical Tree is well-placed to provide an excellent platform for Jarrad's sometimes unconventional point of view. The biography includes Jarrad's life story and a bonus summary of what unexpectedly happens with his estate in relation to the nephew of Jarrad's arch-enemy.