Voted The Times' Book of the Year, Salt Creek is an Australian
historical novel about a family pursuing their dreams, duty, and
displacement.
'Salt Creek is a love song to a lost world' The Guardian
A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance through the eyes of a
strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia.
The comfortable and respectable life Hester Finch now leads in
Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family
endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet she finds her
thoughts drawn back to that remote, beautiful and inhospitable outcrop
of South Australia and the connections she and her siblings forged
there, far from the city society in which they had been raised.
Encounters with the few travellers passing along the nearby stock route
and the local indigenous people, in particular a boy, Tully, whom
Hester's father seeks to educate almost as his own son, would change the
fates of the Finches forever; nor would life ever be the same again for
those who had long called the area home.