Calamity's Claws

About the Book

Calamity’s Claws is a story about a cat and his owner, a young woman Dannette Harney, whose grandparents had come to Australia as refugees from the Chilean coup d’eìtat in 1973, and a scandalous secret the family had kept from her. Due to unavoidable circumstances she becomes caught up in uncovering the family secret which drags her into life threatening contact with desperate criminals and child kidnappers. Yet in the midst of this she finds love, and is confronted by the reality of God and her fragmented family miraculously discover each other in very confronting circumstances.

About the Author

Charlotte Hilary Corden was born in November 1951, in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa and has been a resident of Australia since March 1981. After training and qualifying as a general nurse and midwife in South Africa she moved on to study linguistics in USA planning to do Bible translation. She is married with two adult children and lives in Cairns, far north Queensland. For the last twenty-five years, she and her husband have been translators, and working as consultants with the people of the Torres Strait. This is her first published book.