An outback family saga that will knock your hat off. It's funny, poignant and completely unexpected. You won't be able to stop thinking about it.
Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has just turned 20. She rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is until she shocks her parents by becoming involved with an older man.
Scandalised, they try to pack her off to England, but Sally doesn't make it. After a wild spree in Sydney she's cashed in her ticket and, hell bent on adventure, takes a job as a governess on a remote cattle station - Barra Creek - in the Gulf country of Cape York. Untamed and crocodile infested, it's a land of deserts, jungles and wide rivers. Then the great stations were run by men who were loners and women who had to cope or leave.
Decades later, in 2003, Sally learns a secret that will change many lives - including her own - and leave readers horrified on one hand, and smiling and crying on the other.
Di Morrissey is one of Australia's most popular female novelists. Di's novels, The Valley, The Reef, Barra Creek, Kimberley Sun, The Bay, Blaze, Scatter the Stars, The Songmaster, When the Singing Stops, Tears of the Moon, The Last Mile Home, Follow the Morning Star, The Last Rose of Summer and Heart of the Dreaming all went straight to the top of the bestseller list. Di divides her time between Byron Bay and the Manning Valley in NSW.
ISBN:
9780330424479
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/10/2008
Category:
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Imprint:
Pan Australia
Pages:
Stock:
In stock
Price:
$19.99 AUD
Barra Creek
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Blaze
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Follow the Morning Star
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Follow the Morning Star
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Heart of the Dreaming
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Kimberley Sun
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Scatter the Stars
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The Bay
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The Plantation
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The Reef
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