Refigures the historical novel...Salt Creek introduces a capacious new talent.--The Weekend AustralianHester Finch recalls her family's move to coastal South Australia in 1855. The connections the Finches form with passing travellers and with a local Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, will for ever alter their fates, testing their loyalty to each other and to their own principles.
