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100 1 $aMorrissey, Di.
245 10 $aBarra Creek /$cDi Morrissey.
260 $aSydney :$bPan Macmillan Australia,$c2008.
300 $axxiv, 427 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: Macmillan, 2003.
520 $a"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."--Provided by publisher.
505 0 $aPaperback -Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has just turned 20. She rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is, until she shocks her parents by becoming involved with an older man. Scandalised, they try to pack her off to England, but Sally doesn't make it. After a wild spree in Sydney she has cashed in her ticket and, hell bent on adventure, takes a job as a governess on a remote cattle station -- Barra Creek -- in the Gulf country of Cape York. Untamed and crocodile infested, it is a land of deserts, jungles and wide rivers. Then the great stations were run by men who were loners and women who had to cope or leave. Decades later, in 2003, Sally learns a secret that will change many lives -- including her own -- and leave readers horrified on one hand, and smiling and crying on the other.
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651 0 $aCape York Peninsula (Qld.)$vFiction.
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655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726481
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