Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg s best-selling debut novel about ginnie and fag, twin sisters growing up in christchurch in the thirties and forties, a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, ...Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg s best-selling debut novel about ginnie and fag, twin sisters growing up in christchurch in the thirties and forties, a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, dunnies and textile mills'. This colourful story focuses on the relationship between the girls as they grow into women and their attempt to escape their impoverished background.