A story of love, grief and reconnection across three continents.
Amidst the fearful beauty of Australia's Blue Mountains, elderly, eccentric Aggie lives a quiet life, carefully stitching her records of the weather. But when a series of letters begin to arrive, a lifetime of dread and hope, of longing and passion, comes back. Aggie is suddenly fractured, unsure of who she is. Her family - not to mention her doctor - think she's 'losing her marbles'. It's only Siteri, her disabled granddaughter, that begs to differ. On the contrary, she thinks her Granma Blue has 'too many marbles'. After Aggie is tricked into moving into a dreary care home intent on sucking the life from her, Aggie knows there is only one thing to do. Terrified her family won't understand her complicated, fragmented past, Aggie runs away, taking her weather book with her.
Aggie-Agnes-Agnieszka's journey takes her back through time as well as space, from the darkest depths of Poland and Germany via England to the heights of the Blue Mountains. Along the way she braids her memories back together becoming her fullest self.
Bad People Don't Sing is both a story of the darkest corners of the Porajmos/Samudaripen - the Romani genocide - and an enduring love story that shines with joy, light, and hope.