Into the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback comes acclaimed writer Roger Mcdonald, driving an old truck rattling with cooking gear. He has abandoned writing for a time and found work as a cook for a team of New Zealand shearers travelling through New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. He is determined to find a sense of belonging: somehow to join his life with the landscape, the places and the people he meets along the way.
Shearers Motel is the record of that quest, of its triumphs and failures - a story told with heartfelt sense of the profundity of ordinary lives.
