Salt Creek

ISBN: 1910709352

Author: Treloar, Lucy

Condition: New

"Refigures the historical novel. . . . Salt Creek introduces a capacious new talent." The Weekend AustralianHester Finch recalls her family's move to coastal South Australia in 1855. The connections the Finches form with passing travelers and with a local Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, will forever alter their fates, testing their loyalty to each other and to their own principles.Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne, England, and Sweden. Awards for her writing include the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Salt Creek is her first novel.