Salt Creek

In 1855 Stanton Finch, a failed businessman and one-time political radical, takes his large family from Adelaide to run stock at Salt Creek, on the remote fringe of the Coorong in the new colony of South Australia. Far from the polite world they grew up in, the children explore the shore and greet the occasional traveller passing on the droving track, including a young painter, Charles. An Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom their father decides to educate, is all but adopted into the household. But friction with the dispossessed Ngarrindjeri deepens, Mrs Finch falters, and Hester, the eldest daughter, shoulders more of the family's burdens while dreaming of escape. Decades on, settled in Chichester in England, she recalls those years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, United Kingdom, 1850s

First published

2015

ISBN

9781743533192 (Pan Macmillan Australia, Australia)

9781910709351 (Aardvark Bureau, United Kingdom)

9781910709412 (Aardvark Bureau, United Kingdom)