![]() ![]() One missed contraceptive pill throws her into a life-changing pregnancy. Her life was satisfying though and she had one good friend, Hannah.įour years into a stable relationship with Dylan, Amy does a pregnancy test and when the stick turns pink, her comfortable, carefree existence is overturned. She did not fit into the army married quarters society of mindless wifey gossip and blokey army politics. Her childhood in crisp, dry, temperate Victoria as the daughter of an organic food café proprietor had left her as somewhat of a social introvert, a non-Army wife, who describes herself as a pacifist hippy in love with a gun-toting soldier. ![]() ![]() Plus she has Dylan there to make her laugh and call her affectionate legume names like Mungbean. With her university degree completed, an ABN and a Macbook she was set on a course of a successful career doing freelance ad design for Darwin’s top advertising agency. ![]() In Darwin, Amy, at twenty years of age, enjoys total autonomy, away from both of their fussing families. When her boyfriend, Dylan is posted to Darwin it was like a ticket to freedom for Amy, courtesy of the Australian Armed Forces. In Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, Kim Lock, in her first novel has captured with graphic snapshots, a young woman’s rite of passage from pre-pubescent adolescence to being a mother at just 24 years of age. ![]()
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