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Salt Rain
Salt Rain
Sarah Armstrong (born 1968)
English editions
Written in EnglishSalt Rain
MacAdam/Cage · United States · 17 May 2007 · Paperback · 225 pages
Salt Rain
Allen & Unwin · Australia · 2004 · Paperback · 218 pages
Salt Rain
MacAdam/Cage · United States · April 2006 · Hardcover · 218 pages
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One night Allie's free-spirited mother Mae vanishes on Sydney Harbour; all that is found is her dinghy, adrift. Allie, fourteen, is taken north by her aunt Julia, a woman she barely knows, to a rainforest valley and the crumbling dairy farm where the sisters spent their childhood. Days pass as Allie waits for a phone call. Through the memories of others she pieces together who Mae was as a girl, sees Julia restoring the forest their grandfather felled to make pasture, and discovers that the man her mother first loved has never left the valley. As the humid rainy season closes in, Allie tries to sort her mother's lies from the truth and to confront what the valley has hidden.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Australia
- First published
- 2004
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
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9781741143690 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)
9781596921733 (MacAdam/Cage, United States)
9781596922181 (MacAdam/Cage, United States)
- More
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