"Refigures the historical novel. . . . Salt Creek introduces a capacious new talent." —The Weekend Australian
Hester Finch recalls her family's move to coastal South Australia in 1855. The connections the Finches form with passing travelers and with a local Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, will forever alter their fates, testing their loyalty to each other and to their own principles.
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne, England, and Sweden. Awards for her writing include the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Salt Creek is her first novel.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Voted The Times' 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 GuardianA 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. Hester tells of her family's hardship and tensions with their Aboriginal neighbours, and her quest for independence, in 1850s Australia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781910709412
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Hester Finch's 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 - with sometimes devastating consequences. Seller Inventory # B9781910709412
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