FIRST INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION Welcome to the colourful world of the White family. It is the early 1930s, the Great Depression, and they have fallen on hard times. Like many others, they have been on the road, travelling in search of work, but have now settled in the travellers camp at Warning Hill, just outside the country town of Tiburon in central New South Wales, living in a hut of their own making. Dave White, the patriarch, is so only in his own estimation. His hard drinking, sly wrangling, complaining and leeching dependency drive his motherless children mad. The older children are spread across Tiburon in jobs of questionable security in these tough times, while the younger ones go to school fitfully. Hopefully, the advent of Miss Jessica Daunt, the new young teacher at the tiny Warning Hill school, will prove a drawcard. Paul White, the bookish, gentle one of the family, working as a farmhand at the Dwyers homestead where Jessica boards, is certainly very taken by her! But what will she make of him? With an extraordinary cast of memorable characters, Kylie Tennants first novel explores an Australian country town of the time with a sharp eye for what makes people tick. Whether it be a harridan pubkeeper who cant keep her bargirls in order, an obsessed policeman who concentrates so hard on the letter of law and order that hes constantly undone by simple humanity, a leftleaning parson who loves a good talk a little too much, ladies of means who cant believe it when...

Binding: Paperback;420 pages; Publisher: Michael Walmer; Classification: FV; Weight: 546 g; Dimensions: 204 x 129 x 24

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