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Barra Creek / Di Morrissey.

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Record Number 136110
ISBN 0732910994
9780330424479 (paperback)
Author Morrissey, Di author.
Title Barra Creek / Di Morrissey.
Publisher/Date Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008.
©2003
Pagination etc. xxiv, 427 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents note First published: Macmillan, 2003.
Summary Note In the wild Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, theres a cattle station Barra Creek on a tributary of the crocodile-infested Norman River. Its 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy New Zealand sheep farmer, is on her way to England with her friend Pru. When the young women stop over in Sydney their plans go awry. Sally impulsively takes a job as a governess at Barra Creek, and when the mail plane that flew her there takes off she finds herself left in a different world. One dominated by the overpowering John Monroe and his strict and proper wife Lorna. Here Sally's life changes forever. The challenges of coping with her three young charges, wild stockmen, the heat and the Wet, brumby musters and cattle rushes all pale beside a great passion, a great loss and a gruesome death. Only Lorna knows the truth of the death and of a terrible injustice. Now, in 2003, she searches for the former governess to finally set things right and share her horrific secret.
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Queensland -- Fiction
Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- Fiction
Australian fiction.
Shelf Location F MORR
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