Here’s one of my favourite essays from the upcoming Marooned memoir, set for release with Hawkeye Books, May 20, 2026.

Enjoy!

May 23, 1994

Origin Game #1, SFS, Sydney

Score: Qld 16 – NSW 12

Heaven Sent

Dear Reader, if you’ve managed to reach this point in the book without tossing it aside, and you’re Maroon to the core, and you’ve been keeping tabs on my timeline, and you perused the title of this instalment with a knowing grin, you’ll be keenly aware that it’s time to unpack a miracle:

How my beautiful wife came into my life.

(Okay, you were expecting THE miracle, THE try, immortalised by Ray Warren’s call and a must in every Origin highlight package that ever was and ever will be? Don’t worry – I’ll get to it in due course.)

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