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Under the tutelage of Celeste Kendell, Garrick Aldridge and Corey Wakefield form Auricularis, a singing and songwriting duo. They travel to England as paid performers on a cruise liner. Initially struggling, a breakthrough comes at the BBC. A United Kingdom tour follows and they perform with success in New York and Los Angeles. Corey gets an offer to star in a biopic based on the life and music of Buddy Holly, and Auricularis split. Through his theatrical agent, Catherine Jaeger, a second film offer comes for Corey and he thrives under the direction of Etienne Quayle. In England, Garrick tries to go solo with someone else's band but fails, and Suzanne makes him realise he will never make it as a solo singer-songwriter. She suggests he return to his home in Croakwood, New South Wales. He meets Jenny Watts for the first time at the family Angus cattle property, Glenwood. In Hollywood, Corey falls into the traps and temptations of Tinseltown, with devastating consequences. What follows is a story of regret, rehabilitation, revivals, records, and rapprochement, and reinforces the theme that everyone goes home in the end!

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Jeff Hopkins (1950 -) is a retired schoolteacher. He lives in Walyalup, Western Australia. Walyalup means 'lungs', is the Whadjuk name for Fremantle, and is part of the Noongar Nation. As the drama master at Hale School in Perth, he wrote ten original musical plays and produced and directed them at the school.In 1992, he researched and wrote a family history, 'Life's Race Well Run', and after retiring in 2006 he has written twenty-three novels, a memoir, and three 'faction' (fiction based on fact) biographies: - Artifice (2015)- Gnarl (2015)- The Spiv: The Robbie Sparrow Story (2015)- Impressment: Managers, Actors, and Impressed Boys (2015)- Benedict Lovelace and the Travelling Show (2016)- Reflections: A Story of Friendship (2016)- Rocking Horse Rider (2016)- The Hydrographer: The Clyde Steadman Story (2017) - Handsome Jack: A Whizz-kid's Story (2019)- Lord Gnarl: A Sequel to Gnarl (2019)- A Horse Called Signs: A Sequel to Handsome Jack (2020) - Alaric Pinder Boor: A Life Reimagined (2020) - Caliphs and Kings: Concluding the Gnarl Trilogy (2020) - The Gavin Johns Story: A Belle Beamish Investigation (2021)- The Headmaster: Frederick Charles Faulkner's Story (2021)- Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Commentaries, Musicals and Books (2022)- Resilience: The Story of Cameron and Rick (2022)- Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon (2022)- Surviving the Silence: The Benjamin Stanton Story (2022)- Released & Regained: The Jayden Harnett Story (2023)- Adam & Benjamin: The Story of the Seal Island Band (2023)- Landor: A Saga of Siblings, Schooling, Sparring, and Sinking (2023)- Life's Race Well Run: Revised Edition (2023)- The Trafalgar Twins: Two Halves of the One Person (2023)- John Gavin: The Reimagined Lives of 28 Government Juvenile Immigrants (2024)- The Absconders: The Reimagined Lives of Allen Knight and Thomas Newman (2025)- The Twisted Ladder: The Story of Kit Ganderton and Dougie Bourgore (2025)- Auricularis: Everyone Goes Home in the End (2025)

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