The doctor of Wallaby Creek

<p>In a small country town in central Gippsland the only doctor Don Wilson a widower for ten years lives alone. Deemed a trifle eccentric but loved and respected by all living in Wallaby Creek.</p><p>Small things like his driving a forty-five-year-old MG he had bought new named Rocinante; that and playing the cello in the stillness of the bush evenings maintained the image.</p><p>It was a time when small independent communities were being swallowed up by rural growth centres or just left to wither and die. Skeletons that littered the remote countryside; picked over bleached by the sun and forgotten.</p><p>A young woman arrives in town; well back in town. The daughter of an unwed mother she had been secretly supported through university and now for reasons no one could imagine had applied for a position with the local news-paper.</p><p>Their spirit or stubborn determination call it what you will would not allow the town to die though in the end death comes to all.</p>