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’s hell bent on adventure and takes a job as a governess on a remote cattle station – Barra Creek – in the Gulf country of Cape York: it’s a land of deserts, jungles and wide rivers.
Decades later, 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.
