While reading Trent Dalton's new book 'Lola in the Mirror', where a number of real-life Brisbane locations are mentioned in the book, the main location the action centers around is a street which does not really exist in real-life ... a street called Moon Street down by the Brisbane River.Lola in the Mirror in the Year of the [Water] Rabbit?🐰👀I thought that maybe this was a new street that wasn't around when I was a kid visiting my Nan, who lived down by the river across the road from a petro-chemical plant, which like her house, is no longer there anymore.
But all I could find on the net when looking for "Moon Street" at West End was the 'Museum of the Moon', the first in a series of three awe-inspiring large-scale installations by Luke Jerram at West Village.An event which took place in 2022, which I never knew about either.
Which is a shame, as I would have liked to have attended that event and seen that artificial moon all lit up at night in West End.
UPDATE: October 27th, 2023
Trent tells what inspired him to write his latest book in the podcast above.
