Salt Creek

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 405 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Finch Family Have Fallen On Hard On Land For Graziers Willing To Take Their Chance. Times Have Moved To Coorong In The New Province Of South Australia

Publishers Description: Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was.Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch.Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the few travellers that pass along the nearby stock route - among them a young artist, Charles - and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Over the years that pass, and Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family.Stanton's attempts to tame the harsh landscape bring ruin to the Ngarrindjeri people's homes and livelihoods, and unleash a chain of events that will tear the family asunder. As Hester witnesses the destruction of the Ngarrindjeri's subtle culture and the ideals that her family once held so close, she begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?PRAISE FOR LUCY TRELOARWINNER of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region)WINNER of the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award

ISBN: 9781743533192