January 2017 Fiction & Entertainment Currency Press

Kenny's Coming Home Ned Manning

Kenny's Coming Home
Ned Manning


The Green family have moved out of the inner city and into the Western suburbs. The family’s move has been prompted by Dad’s political ambitions. When the local Member drops dead playing squash Dad seizes the opportunity. However, his political leanings so horrify his sister, Aunt Dorothy, that she decides to stand against him. Aunt Dorothy sees Dad as a traitor to Labor ideals, the ideals of Ben Chifley. Dad is unperturbed for he knows son Kenny, a local footy legend, will bolster his campaign. Sadly for Dad, Kenny is not the person he was. The family is thrown into turmoil in this political satire told with the addition of twelve rollicking songs.