Barra Creek by Di Morrissey, ISBN 9780330364768

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Di's twelfth novel begins in the 1960s in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand where the Mitchell family have run a prosperous sheep farm for generations.

Sally Mitchell has just turned 20, rides to the hounds and leads an indulged life. That is until she shocks her family by becoming involved with an inappropriate older man. Her parents take drastic steps and try to pack her off to England, but Sally doesn't make it.

After a wild spree in Sydney she's 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's a country of deserts, jungles and wide rivers. Then the great stations were run by whites, supported by their resident black camps, worked by men who were loners and women who had to cope or leave.

Decades later, in 2003, Sally is confronted with her past, as Lorna, the aging station wife, diagnosed with dementia, searches for her to share the great secret of what happened one night that changed their lives. For it is the one-time governess who holds the key to the future of the boys, now men, she once taught at Barra Creek.

An outback family saga that will knock your hat off. 'Barra Creek' is funny, poignant and completely unexpected. You won't be able to stop thinking about it.

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About the Author: Di Morrissey

Di Morrissey (born 18 March 1948 in Wingham, New South Wales) is one of Australia's most popular female novelists. She grew up in the remote surrounds of Pittwater, north of Sydney, Australia. Growing up she counted famous Australian actor Chips Rafferty as a close mentor and friend who helped provide for her and her mother after the death of her father as a child, sending them overseas to California to live with family.
In her later years, Di went on to become a journalist on London's Fleet Street, and worked for CBS in Honolulu, where she lived with her husband who was in the foreign service, and even had a small role in the series Hawaii Five-0, a guest role in season three, episode seven, 1970 starring as 'Alicia Anderson'.
After moving back to Australia, Di published her first book 'Heart of the Dreaming' which instantly became a bestseller.

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