"Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award."
Glenda Guest lives in the Blue Mountains. This is her first novel.
"A complex story that taps into five generations with great
fluency. . . . Here is a writer whose talent is as magical as her
genre." --Sydney Morning Herald
"The terrain is breathtakingly spare and tough and stunning. . . .
This is a story that delights and shocks with its spiritual energy
and refreshingly original voice." --Courier Mail
"With sprinklings of magic realism and a deft hand for compelling
characters, Glenda Guest has created one of the loveliest debut
novels I've read in a long while." --Bookseller+Publisher magazine
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