Gallic Books

A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Money, makes his way to the village fair. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible?

Hester Finch's comfortable existence 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 devastating consequences.