- Title:
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Salt Creek (MP3)
- Written by:
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Lucy Treloar
- Read by:
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Ulli Birvé
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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14 hours 34 minutes
- MP3 size:
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633 MB
- Published:
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April 01 2016
- Available Date:
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April 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489341167
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Winner Indie Book Awards / Debut Fiction 2016
Winner ABIA Matt Richell Award / New Writer of the Year 2016
Winner Dobbie Literary Award for a first time published author 2016
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016
'Salt Creek introduces a capacious talent.'
The Australian
From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel.
Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was.
Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including 15 year-old Hester Finch.
Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the few travellers that pass along the nearby stock route – among them a young artist, Charles – and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Over the years that pass, and Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family.
Stanton's attempts to tame the harsh landscape bring ruin to the Ngarrindjeri people's homes and livelihoods, and unleash a chain of events that will tear the family asunder. As Hester witnesses the destruction of the Ngarrindjeri's subtle culture and the ideals that her family once held so close, she begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?
'This fine, accomplished novel is a respectful and unobtrusively beautiful homage to the Ngarrindjeri people.'
Sydney Morning Herald