Gallic Books/Aardvark Bureau
September 2017
On Sale: September 12, 2017
464 pages ISBN: 1910709352 EAN: 9781910709351 Kindle: B073DQ5HNK Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia.
A part of me will always live at Salt Creek though it is on the far side of the worldβ¦
Hester Finchβs comfortable life in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet she finds her thoughts drawn to that beautiful, inhospitable outcrop of South Australia and the connections she and her siblings forged there: encounters with passing travellers and the local indigenous people β in particular a boy, Tully, whom Hesterβs father seeks to educate almost as his own son β would change the fates of the Finches, and of the areaβs first people, for ever.
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