Barra Creek

An outback family saga that will knock your hat off. Its funny poignant and completely unexpected. You wont be able to stop thinking about it. Dis twelfth 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 doesnt make it. After a wild spree in Sydney shes 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 its 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.