Blurb:
In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between two worlds - the 'civilised' and the 'primitive'.

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A surprise indeed! Thank you so much ApoloniaX I will enjoy it all the more since it comes from you! Missed seeing you, I hope we can meet again sooner rather than later!

This is a book that creates a profound sense of isolation through the excellence of both its story telling and writing style. But I was left feeling a deep emptiness at our inhumanity when I put the book down. Very glad I read it.

During the Literary Festival on the steps of Temple Methodist Church.

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