Barra Creek (Unabridged)
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4.0 • 35 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Love, treachery and family secrets in Australia's far north.
It's 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy New Zealand sheep farmer, is on her way to England with her friend Pru. When the young women stop-over in Sydney, their plans go awry. Sally impulsively takes a job as a governess at Barra Creek, and when the mail plane that flew her there takes off she finds herself left in a different world - one dominated by the overpowering John Monroe and his strict and proper wife Lorna. Here Sally's life changes forever. The challenges of coping with her three young charges, wild stockmen, the heat and the wet, brumby musters and cattle rushes all pale beside a great passion, a great loss and a gruesome death. Only Lorna knows the truth of the death and of a terrible injustice. Now, in 2003, she searches for the former governess to finally set things right and share her horrific secret.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A vivid portrait of Australian bush life in the early 1960s, Barra Creek follows the unexpected twists and turns that await Sally, who has grown up on her family’s successful New Zealand sheep farm. A misguided romance spurs her parents to ship her off to England, but instead she ends up as the governess on a remote cattle station in Far North Queensland. Sally steadily grows into this unlikely role, faced with challenges she never could have imagined during her pampered childhood. Author Di Morrissey always does her research, and Barra Creek wholly transports the reader to its unique setting. Read by Aussie actress Kate Hood, who beautifully represents the characters’ diverse range of voices, this audiobook balances hardship, humour and new love with Morrissey’s trademark tenderness.
