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Salt Creek
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- Book Synopsis
- Voted The Times' Book of the Year, Salt Creek is an Australian historical novel about a family pursuing their dreams, duty, and displacement. 'Salt Creek is a love song to a lost world' The Guardian A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance through the eyes of a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. The comfortable and respectable life Hester Finch now leads 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 back to that remote, beautiful and inhospitable outcrop of South Australia and the connections she and her siblings forged there, far from the city society in which they had been raised. Encounters with the few travellers passing along the nearby stock route and the local indigenous people, in particular a boy, Tully, whom Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, would change the fates of the Finches forever; nor would life ever be the same again for those who had long called the area home.
- About The Author
- Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne, England and Sweden, and worked for several years in Cambodia. Awards for her writing include the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Salt Creek is her first novel. Lucy lives in Melbourne with her husband, four children and two whippets.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781910709351
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Aardvark Bureau, (28 September 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 334 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 178 x 127 x 24 mm
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