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"Haunting" (Herald)

"Powerful and poignant" (Guardian)

"She has a gift for lyricism and elegant imagery... leaves a lovely legacy" (The Times)

"Shards of poetry stud Jones' writing like diamonds" (Independent)

This is a story that can only be told in a whisper...

In the remote outback of Western Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keane is discovered murdered...